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On behalf of Ann Gloag’s Balcraig Foundation, her daughter-in-law, Mrs Denise McCleary, was presented with a cheque for £5,400 by pupils of Kelvinside Academy on the penultimate day of the Christmas Term. The money, raised in the course of a single term, by Junior and Senior pupils at the School, will pay for sewing machines and training as seamstresses for girls at the Thomas Barnardo House Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya which is run by the Foundation. The resulting cottage industry making clothes and, in particular, school clothes, will help towards the running costs of the orphanage. The original target of £4,500, a two year project, was met and surpassed in just one term. A series of enterprising activities including an X-Factor Competition, a sponsored Readathon and the sale of original paintings purchased last summer in Kenya quadrupled the sums raised earlier in the term. 
Kelvinside Academy entered into a partnership agreement with Mrs Gloag’s Foundation eighteen months ago. In that time, the School has funded a new bakery, which now produces up to 1000 Kelvin Loaves a day for free distribution and for sale (9p a loaf!). The School sponors some 27 children in the Orphanage in addition to supporting community self-help projects. July of this year saw the first of what is to be an annual trip to Kenya by pupils and staff to work in the Orphanage and its associated school, Jonathan Gloag Academy. Staff from that School recently visited Kelvinside Academy and last year a talented artist from the Orphanage spent a month in Glasgow as KA’s Artist in Residence. |
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