Heathrow Primary School is working with four schools in Kenya under the umbrella of the Mukuru Promotion Centre. The school in Harmondsworth Lane, Sipson, has been helping the schools in the slums of Nairobi since October 2007.
Without an education, the boys and girls who live in cardboard and corregated iron shacks in the slums would be forced onto the streets, with no hope of a brighter future.
But these children have a chance for a better life thanks to the Mukuru Promotion Centre (MPC). The MPC has been supported by British Airways for more than ten years through voluntary work and donations, and the airline also sponsors Heathrow Primary School in their work with the MPC.
It is a project headteacher John Hobbs started in October last year with the help of British Airways, and has vowed to continue. Without the MPC, the four schools which educate more than 4,000 children from the slums, may not exist.
So far, pupils, parents and teachers from the school have raised more than £10,000 for the project, and teachers from the Heathrow School, have been visiting the schools to take lessons in arts, crafts and music. Some of the money raised has gone towards equipping two nursery classrooms in the slum schools, providing tables and chairs for four junior classrooms, and providing arts and crafts materials and some musical instruments.