Camel helps raise funds for Kenya

A party of walkers, accompanying a camel, completed the 85-mile walk from Oxford to Cambridge University in six days to mark the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society. The sponsored walk also aimed to raise around £100,000 as an endowment fund to set up six new primary schools in Northern Kenya in memory of the late Bishop Andrew Adano, the first nomadic Bishop from Northern Kenya who helped develop primary schools in the region. The group included Canon Graham Kings (Hertford, 1973), Director of the Henry Martyn Centre at Westminster College, Cambridge, and the Revd Joseph Galgalo, a member of the nomadic Gabbra tribe of Northern Kenya, who is currently studying for a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Cambridge. They were seen off by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Colin Lucas, Principal of Hertford College, Sir Walter Bodmer, and the Revd Canon Brian Mountford, from the University Church of St Mary the Virgin on Tuesday, 22 June. Their arrival in Cambridge on Sunday was followed by an evening service at the University Church, and on Monday the walkers were welcomed by the Chancellor of Cambridge University, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.