FOUR KILIFI ANGLICAN CHURCH MEMBERS TO RECEIVE SPECIAL BELL RINGING SKILLS ABROAD

Kenyan bellringers John Malala, Betty Ngetsa, Deborah Shichei and Lennox Charo ||COURTESY

Four Anglican church bell ringers from Kilifi county are set to travel abroad to receive special training on how to ring the church bells.

John Malala an amicus of Ribe Boys High School, Betty Ngetsa, Deborah Shichei and Lennox Charo will visit a church bell ringing training centre in Eckington to brush up on their skills from a team of local campanologists.

According to www.epworthbells.co.uk, the training of the four  is a landmark. This is because ringers from Derbyshire and South Yorkshire regularly benefit from the facilities offered along with others from further afield - but so far all those who have undergone training have predominantly been British.

However, all that will change at the end of June and in early July when a group of ringers from the smalltown of Kilifi in eastern Kenya arrive for training.

There are just 13 sets of bells in the whole of Africa rung in the English style - ten in South Africa, two in Zimbabwe and those at Kilifi.