Remit Group feature in YEPK's Newsletter

http://www.kiliproject.org/newsletters-and-documents/progress-summer-2013.pdf

Remit Staff Member Heading Back to Tanzania

Katy Pilling, has just returned from the foothills of Kilimanjaro, where she led a team of apprentices and staff

The trip was set up by the Remit as a prize for those apprentices that came top at Remit’s national awards.

In her day job Katy, works with apprentices across the country to make sure they get the additional support they need to complete their training. Her team provides training in functional skills such as literacy, numeracy and communication, as well as social support for those apprentices that need help tackling some of life’s barriers to learning.

She was selected by Remit’s senior management team to lead the group of apprentices, supported by her colleagues Sam Bold, Steve Knapp and Louise Ward.

As part of the trip, the group spent time with workers from the Village Education Project Kilimanjaro (VEPK). The charity, set up in 1994 by Katy Allen MBE, teaches children and young people in villages on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Remit has been supporting the charity for the past couple of years, providing tools and resources to enable them to set up a new vocational centre teaching motor mechanics.

The team learnt more about the charity and met the young people who benefit. They also helped to plant trees, paint the new training centre, and worked with local Mamas, finding out what life’s really like for women running their homes in the rural villages.

Katy was so inspired by the trip, she has pledged to return to Tanzania in September to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. She will be raising as much money as she can for VEPK and the children and families it supports.

She said: “I’ve seen just how difficult the most simplest of tasks are for the Mamas and the children, who are growing up in a different world out there. One day it took an hour, just to make a cup of coffee. But these people never complain, it’s just their life.

“What VEPK offers these children is a chance for an education, and to learn vocational skills that will give them greater opportunities.

“I’m delighted to be a part of a company like Remit that is not only training young people across the UK, but supporting an organisation like VEPK to do the same for those children growing up in rural poverty in Tanzania.

“I am aiming to raise £2,500 for the charity, and having seen first-hand the good this can do, I am determined to achieve my target for VEPK and the people it serves.”

To sponsor Katy, please visit her Virgin Money page at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KatyPilling1, where you can also find out more about the VEPK charity.
from Remit, on a trip to support a Tanzanian charity.

Remit Tanzania Trip 2013

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Let's get Ready to Rumble....

 



It's T-minus five sleeps till I lead a team
of Remit apprentices and staff members
more than 7,000 miles
south of here to the African country of Tanzania.


I want one of these!!

Our four apprentices, David 'Daps' Price, Eric Riley, Ryan Olone and Anthony Panayi, have all excelled over the past couple of years as Remit apprentices and were given the chance to join me and three other members of staff - Louise Ward, Sam Bold and Steve Knapp - on a charity trek to Tanzania.

Remit has been working with the charity VEPK (Village Education Project Kilimanjaro) for the past couple of years, and has been supplying them with tools and resources to enable them to start vocational training for young people in car mechanics. The charity works to provide schooling and training to children and young people from the deprived rural villages on the North Eastern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

We will be heading out to Killi for 12 days and have a packed itinerary which means our four young men will get the chance to see the work the charity is doing, help out to plant some trees in the local area, learn what life is like for the Mamas in the region and camp out under the stars. We will have a treat at the end of the trip as we head out on Safari, so I can't wait to see all the animals - in fact I might try and fit a baby elephant into my hand luggage!

It's been a busy few weeks organising everything from passports and visas, to jabs, malaria tablets, tickets and flights, but I think I can safely say nearly every list is ticked off.

So ladies and gents, get your bags packed, your sensible footwear polished and ready for inspection, and we're ready to hit the road!

We leave Remit's G7 offices at 8.30am on Tuesday morning. Next stop Gatwick! 

 

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