Aberdeenshire Kenya Literacies Exchange Programme

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Aberdeenshire Council’s Community Learning and Development (CLD) team has been successful in securing an Education Exchange grant from the Scottish Government - Scottish Education Exchange Test and Learn (Year 3). This is the first time this grant has been available to CLD, as it was previously only offered to schools, universities, and colleges.

Six staff members from across the CLD service have been selected to take part in an Aberdeenshire Literacies Learning Exchange in Nyeri, Kenya, from 2nd to 12th February 2026.

This project will build on established connections to foster relationships between CLD Workers in Aberdeenshire and Inspire Nyeri, a community-based literacies project in Kenya. The exchange will enable CLD Workers from Aberdeenshire to visit Nyeri and actively participate in literacy learning and delivery. By learning from literacy practices in Kenya, the project aims to develop more inclusive and sustainable, outcome-focused literacy learning opportunities for our communities and families in Aberdeenshire.

Literacy is a foundational skill that improves life chances, employability, and access to services for children and families in both Kenya and Scotland. By sharing and adapting Inspire Nyeri’s community-based literacy approaches, the project aims to enhance lifelong and life-wide learning in both countries—key to breaking the cycle of poverty and supporting children and families.

You can keep up to date with our project by following our team journal, we plan to provide a range of videos, photographs and reflections while we are away.

For our Kenyan partners and friends we are keen to share Aberdeenshire with you! You'll find lots of information about our service, the team and also resources that are available to you.



Aberdeenshire Council’s Community Learning and Development (CLD) team has been successful in securing an Education Exchange grant from the Scottish Government - Scottish Education Exchange Test and Learn (Year 3). This is the first time this grant has been available to CLD, as it was previously only offered to schools, universities, and colleges.

Six staff members from across the CLD service have been selected to take part in an Aberdeenshire Literacies Learning Exchange in Nyeri, Kenya, from 2nd to 12th February 2026.

This project will build on established connections to foster relationships between CLD Workers in Aberdeenshire and Inspire Nyeri, a community-based literacies project in Kenya. The exchange will enable CLD Workers from Aberdeenshire to visit Nyeri and actively participate in literacy learning and delivery. By learning from literacy practices in Kenya, the project aims to develop more inclusive and sustainable, outcome-focused literacy learning opportunities for our communities and families in Aberdeenshire.

Literacy is a foundational skill that improves life chances, employability, and access to services for children and families in both Kenya and Scotland. By sharing and adapting Inspire Nyeri’s community-based literacy approaches, the project aims to enhance lifelong and life-wide learning in both countries—key to breaking the cycle of poverty and supporting children and families.

You can keep up to date with our project by following our team journal, we plan to provide a range of videos, photographs and reflections while we are away.

For our Kenyan partners and friends we are keen to share Aberdeenshire with you! You'll find lots of information about our service, the team and also resources that are available to you.



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Six Community Learning and Development Workers travelled to Nyeri in Kenya on 2nd February for 10 days to develop opportunities to learn and share new skills. Learn a bit more about the experiences of everyone involved - below you'll find personal and team reflections, social media links and photos from the exchange visit. 


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    The Aberdeenshire Community Learning and Development (CLD)Team, prior to arriving in Kenya for the exchange trip, were made aware of a book and resources drive for the Turkana library project. The Turkana library project supports the development of community based literacies for children, young people and adults in very rural/remote Kenya.

    CLD partners, colleagues, friends and families kindly donated resources, including books, stationary, classroom poster etc which the team took with them to Kenya.

    The Facebook post below is Lynne and Caithleen (Aberdeenshire CLD) gifting the resources to Kagwiria Murungi who is leading on this project.


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    Heather was invited to Fraserburgh North Primary School in March to share her experiences from the Kenya Exchange visit. The P5/6 children from Fraserburgh North wrote letters to the children Inspire Nyeri is working with and the team were able to support them to write letters in return, which Heather delivered to the school on her visit.

    You can read the letters from Kenya here and here

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    Poster from Kenya event - With visitors from Scotland


    Heather West CLD Worker from Fraserburgh reads a Doric poem during the Literacy Exchange in project in Kenya.

    Sharing with kind permissions from University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Institute. The poem A Tae be in Scotland was written by Hazel Addison https://www.abdn.ac.uk/.../search-the-doric/display/243/


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