A small Christian charity — Truro, Cornwall
Touch Eldoret supports the community of Eldoret, Kenya — providing school fees and essential medical costs, resourcing adult education and training, helping people start small businesses, and running volunteer-led medical clinics.
About Us
Touch Eldoret is a small Christian charity based in Truro, Cornwall. Our chair, Jane Bostock, first visited Kenya in 2007 and wanted to find a way to help the people she met there. The charity grew out of her passion to bring hope to people who lack so much, and over the years we have built a close relationship with members of the Christian community in Eldoret.
Life in Uasin Gishu, on the outskirts of Eldoret, is hard. Jobs are scarce and poorly paid; many families cannot get enough food or send their children to school. Water supply is unreliable — droughts can last months, causing illness and crop failure, and when the rains do come, many have no way to store water.
We work to relieve this poverty through financial and practical support and through access to training, healthcare and education — helping in ways that will enable the people of Eldoret to meet their own needs in the future. No trustee receives any pay or benefit from the charity.
What We Do
Paying children's school fees and helping families meet basic food needs, so children can stay in school and learn.
Covering essential medical costs and running short-term, volunteer-led medical clinics and rehabilitation advice for people who would otherwise have none.
Resourcing adult education and vocational training, and helping people start and develop small businesses to provide for their families.
Grants to the church in Eldoret to assist in building a new community centre — a lasting hub for the whole neighbourhood.
Practical improvements like concrete floors and closable doors and windows, protecting families from jiggers and disease.
Continuing support of the church in its wider community development work, year after year.
Projects & People
Bryson is a key leader at Arise and Shine church in Eldoret. We have paid for him to attend forestry and conservation training, and hope to help him start his own agricultural business. Naomy helped at one of our clinics, showed a natural empathy for medical work, and is now a fully qualified pastor.
Two brothers with big dreams. We have been paying for Michael to attend senior school in Kakamega, where he hopes one day to become a pilot. Joseph Junior, still at junior school, already dreams of becoming an engineer.
Philip came to one of our clinics unable to walk, his leg severely swollen by jiggers — sand fleas that burrow into skin. After treating him, we built his family a new house with a concrete floor and closable doors and windows, protecting them from reinfestation.
Eldoret is the fifth largest town in Kenya, situated 165 miles north-west of Nairobi in the Rift Valley, 6,800 feet above sea level. We support people in Uasin Gishu on its outskirts, where many families live hand to mouth, working small plots of land to feed themselves.
In the financial year ending 31 March 2025 the charity received £5,140 and spent £5,026 on these purposes. Full accounts are filed with the Charity Commission for England & Wales.
Trustees
The charity is run by a board of three trustees, helped by a small team of volunteers. No trustee receives any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
Get Involved
A one-off or regular donation goes straight to work in Eldoret. If you pay UK tax, you can add Gift Aid at no cost to you — just ask when you give.
We collect unwanted clothing, shoes, handbags, books and bric-a-brac to sell at car boot and table top sales, plus old mobile phones, ink cartridges and scrap metal. Supporters also sell plants and free-range eggs.
Help sort donations or run a stall at home — or join a trip to Eldoret to help with medical clinics, training or building work. Volunteers fund their own travel and complete a DBS check.
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Contact
To make a donation, offer items for our sales, volunteer, or simply find out more about our work in Eldoret, we would be glad to hear from you.
Email[email protected]
Telephone01872 560844
Post1 Bethel Cottages, Twelveheads, Truro, Cornwall TR4 8SL
A small Christian charity and Charitable Incorporated Organisation supporting the community of Eldoret, Kenya.
Registered charity in England & Wales, no. 1172435.