What we can do to help the world's children

Two years ago my sister Tina and I stayed with a friend in Kijiwetanga, Kenya, a large village community where people live in mud houses and there is no running water or electricity. Kijiwetanga has one of the largest schools in the district, attended by more than 1,000 children aged three to 16. We visited the school and the pre-school and saw children playing under trees, using bottle tops to learn to count and drawing in the red sandy earth with sticks.