Category: KOA

KOA Shop

The KOA Shop may well have been the first POP-UP shop! It has certainly become a village institution, and this year it opens on MONDAY 27th JULY. If you have goods to donate to the shop, please bring them along to St Swithun’s church hall between 12 noon and 2 p.m. on Sunday 26th July, or …

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Open Gardens in Kennington

Sunday 28th June is Open Gardens Day in Kennington, in aid of Kennington Overseas Aid’s 2015 charity, Standing Voice, which provide medical aid to people with albinism in Tanzania. Around 10 gardens will be open throughout the village between 2 and 6pm, each of them with a character all its own. Come along and get new ideas …

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KOA – film screening

On Wednesday 1 April, at 7.30 in St Swithun’s Church Hall, KOA will be showing the film In the Shadow of the Sun, which follows a group of albinism sufferers in Tanzania over six years, as they try to combat the prejudice, health issues and threats to their physical safety that arise from their condition …

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KOA – 2015 project

At its recent public meeting Kennington Overseas Aid selected as the project for which we will be fund-raising in 2015 the charity Standing Voice, which provides medical care to people with albinism in Tanzania. Albinism is ten times more common in East Africa than it is in white European societies. It is a condition which …

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