On the Market Place today Oxfordshire Young People were fund raising at the Abingdon Nasio Music fun day. The Nasio Trust is a UK-based Charity supporting projects working with orphaned and destitute children in Kenya. Nasio have been holding events on the Market Place for a few years now.
I remember buying my first orange Nasio brick to help fund one of the Nasio Day Care Centres in about 2008, and got another brick today. The 2014 bricks are bigger and more squashy.
The Nasio charity began when an elderly lady called Irene found an abandoned baby and cared for it. The works has grown from there, and the trust run two day care centres, and also offer young people from Oxfordshire the chance to get involved with activities and fundraising, culminating in volunteering for one of the projects in Kenya.
The Land Rover on the Market Place is due to be shipped to Mombasa in October , and will be used to help transport sick children to the nearest hospital and help their work in other ways.
The Nasio Trust is an Abingdon based charity, so is truly local. It does a lot of good work with the under privileged young people here who fund raise and sometimes visit the orphanages in Kenya.
One young man told me his visit to Kenya was life changing as he saw children with less than he had.
It is worth our support and the Town Council has already done so.
Thank you for your support and a great blog