College students who volunteer to help some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable children have thanked residents of a Dorset care home for supporting their humanitarian mission.  

Members of the Brock2Kenya group visited Colten Care’s Avon Reach in Mudeford to give a first-hand account of their latest projects with orphaned street children 4,000 miles away in the city of Nakuru, Kenya.

Staff and residents at Avon Reach, plus Colten Care colleagues and suppliers, are among the supporters of an annual trip for volunteers, providing donations of cash as well as clothes, shoes, educational materials and other much needed items for distribution to hundreds of Nakuru’s children.

Resident Noeleen Braisby said: “I found it riveting, really fascinating to hear about all this. It made me realise the huge gulf between our lives here and the extraordinarily poor lives that some of these children in Kenya lead. Long may the mission continue.”

Those presenting to the Avon Reach residents were Adrian Butterworth, progression adviser at Brockenhurst College and trip lead, and two students who were with him on the last visit as part of their educational enrichment options, Lexie Henderson and Bethany Cohu.

Butterworth said: “We couldn’t do the mission without the help of the Colten Care residents and staff and our other supporters. Everyone’s help makes a massive difference. If we get can help one child in dire straits to get out of their circumstances, then it’s worth doing.”