Direct Link helps to bring together the peoples of Kenya and the rest of the world.

We organise visits for sponsors to go and see 'their' children in their own setting, and we also enable the visitors to help in the local primary school and join in local activities.

We buy cows and other livestock for families so that the children can drink milk and not spend the day on an empty stomach. One of our Kenyan volunteers has to walk ten miles with the cows as there is no transport between the market and the village. The photo on the right shows new cows arriving in the village, to be greeted by the grannies and children. 

We link schools in Kenya with British schools and we raise funds for school equipment, buildings and libraries. We also help deaf children to receive an education  that they otherwise might not have. 

However, not one penny raised goes on administration. All donations are sent direct to their target, with no deductions (apart from the bank charge for clearing the cheque at the Kenyan end, in the case of the Primary School for the Deaf), as all administration costs are borne by our volunteers in Britain and by Mustardseed, a French-based charity working in the same district in Kenya.

Browse through our website to see what work we are doing in Kenya, and have a look at our gallery of photographs to see how much work has been done, and also how much there is still left to do.  Have a look at our page 'Direct Link can offer you' to see how incredibly rewarding it is to help the children and grannies.