Write a poem, educate an orphan

There are umpteen poetry competitions and I don't usually bother flagging them up, cos those who go in for them tend to know about them.

But this is a new one on me, and one that actually aims to do some good. Educating Kenyan Orphans is a charity whose objectives are:

# To advance the education of the children who have been orphaned mostly by AIDS and those who live in poverty in Kenya, by raising funding to buy educational materials [...]
# In order to relieve the poverty of the orphans and other impoverished children in Kenya, the charity will purchase land and build a school to give a free education to those in need in Kenya.
# To aid the education of children who would be barred from school due to curable ailments in Kenya. Funding would be diverted from the main aims of the charity to alleviate the suffering of individual children to pay for medical care.

All of which, you'll allow, seems a Jolly Good Plan. They have found sponsorship to provide the prize money, including a first prize of £1000 (it doesn't say so on the website but it does on the flyer they sent out) so that all entry fees will go to educating orphans. The entry fee of £5 is about average for comps, only in most cases you don't have the pleasure of knowing that win or lose, it wasn't wasted.... The judge is John Hegley, who'll also give a reading in support of the charity at the award ceremony, part of the Frome festival (scroll down to July in the dates list).