Stu­dents from an UK school got to shed their uni­forms for a day, but it came at a price. Stu­dents had to donate to come into school in any street clothes, the money went to a char­ity that oper­ates a orphan­age in South Kenya.

From the Shield Gazette, writer Angela Reed explains the fundraiser.

Pupils at St Aloy­sius RC Infants in Heb­burn held a non-uniform day and raised £270 for The Akho­nya Trust, a Gateshead-based char­ity that sup­ports a rural area in west­ern Kenya.

It runs a home for 130 chil­dren orphaned by HIV/Aids and pays for cor­rec­tive surgery, such as club feet, cleft palate and bowed legs.

It also sup­ports an organ­i­sa­tion called SAIPEH (Sup­port Activ­i­ties in Poverty Erad­i­ca­tion and Health), which has just set up a feed­ing cen­tre in a small vil­lage called Manyasa.

The money raised by the school allowed the Trust to buy a pure-bred cow and a goat for the feed­ing cen­tre, which pro­vides 30 orphans with two basic meals a day.

The goat has been named Aaron, after five-year-old pupil Aaron McDow­ell, who donated all his savings.

The chil­dren were asked to come up with a name for the cow and agreed on Milky.

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