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Check out the latest COCO news for everything from reports on new class rooms in East Africa to fundraising in the North East of England.

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Oct 26

Community Fish Project Changing Lives in Kenya

By Caitlin Clark & Lucy Liddle Your support has enabled Niaver CBO to create a community fish project that will support the provision of...

Jun 7

What is Long-Term Impact?

By Lucy Liddle We use the phrase #LongTermImpact all the time. But what does this actually mean... As always, sometimes an example is the...

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Apr 3

Women of Kitale: Breaking the cycle of poverty

By Rebecca Brett & Lucy Liddle Mamma Caroline and her Family - Photo Credit to Nick Spollin Why Kitale? For the women in Kitale, life can...

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Mar 2

For the Love of Reading

By Rebecca Brett & Lucy Liddle It's 8pm on the 1st March and children across the UK have only just remembered to tell their parents that...

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Sep 24, 2019

PreSchools for Life!

Pre-school education is a very important stage of a child’s development, by the age of five, 90% of a child’s brain has already...

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Jul 19, 2019

The Importance of Community-led Development Projects

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” Community-led development projects...

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Apr 26, 2019

Plant Hope This Spring

Spring is in the air and we are surrounded by regrowth and renewal. Please support us by renewing hope for the community in Bwayi. In...

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Feb 20, 2019

Idhi nade? Get to know the Luo language and culture.

By Valtteri Nurminen, COCO volunteer This is the second blog of our blog series celebrating the International Year of Indigenous...

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Feb 6, 2019

COCO Celebrates International Year of Indigenous Languages

This year the world celebrates the International Year of Indigenous Languages. It is celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of...

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Nov 19, 2018

World Toilet Day 2018

By Valtteri Nurminen, COCO Volunteer Today we celebrate the World Toilet Day for the fifth year. The day aims to raise awareness that...

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Sep 27, 2018

Throwback to Kidron School

In honour of #ThrowbackThursday, we thought we'd feature one of our past project partners and look back on what we achieved. This week,...

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Mar 20, 2018

International Day of Happiness – Lorenzo Wareham

The International Day of Happiness is a United Nations observed day which aims to promote the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human...

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Feb 20, 2018

International Women’s Day – Lorenzo Wareham

International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on March 8th in honour of movements towards equality and women’s rights. The first...

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Feb 1, 2018

Marginalised groups – LGBTQ+

This is the final installment in our marginalised groups blogs, rounding up research done with our partners in East Africa to see how...

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Jan 29, 2018

Marginalised groups – beliefs

This is the third blog in a series looking at results from recent research undertaken with partners in East Africa to determine how COCO...

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Jan 23, 2018

Marginalised groups – disabilities

This is the second blog in the marginalised groups series. COCO recently undertook research with our partners in East Africa to determine...

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Jan 18, 2018

10,350 meals!

Maasai Academy in Kenya established a Food Forest to grow food for their students and to generate income for the school. The garden is...

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Jan 10, 2018

Marginalised Groups – Gender

COCO's belief is that every child should have access to good quality education, regardless of their race, gender, religious beliefs,...

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Jan 5, 2018

Highlights of 2017

In 2017 your support helped to achieve so much in East Africa, here is one highlight from each of the past 12 months. If you want a bit...

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Dec 18, 2017

Christmas in Uganda, by Lorenzo Wareham

Christmas in the UK and the wider western world is a time of relaxation spent with family where eating, drinking and gift giving are the...

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Nov 23, 2017

Health Day Event

To generate income to invest into the local community, we are making use of Mbamba Bay’s main asset – the beautiful surroundings! Mbamba...

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