Peggy Campbell, a member of New Ways for many years and a lay worker with the St Paul's Missionary Community in Turkana, northwestern Kenya, died yesterday afternoon. She was four months away from her 80th birthday. Peggy devoted all the years of her retirement to working with women and children at the mission.

A professional seamstress in London,  Peggy began visiting and working in Turkana after the death of her husband John. Eventually she decided to lived there permanently. She taught many women how to sew and set up their own businesses. She also taught literacy to many young children.

Peggy began working with New Ways in London in 1995 and made her first trip to Africa in 1996.

Angela Docherty, CEO of New Ways, says of Peggy: "Peggy was an amazing woman that has in the last 17 years of her life helped raise money, train people to earn a living and generally devote herself to helping people in Turkana."

We will be publishing a full tribute and obituary soon.

To read an earlier report about Peggy see: London pensioner runs classes for self-suffiency in Africa

2012

• Peggy Campbell
• New Ways Supporter writes new play
• Turkana Activist Wins Goldman Environmental Prize

2011

• Israel to fund Turkana irrigation
• Recipes to support New Ways
• Famine in Turkana
• New Ways receives £160,000
• Turkana conflict
• Turkana Bishop visits New Ways
• Turkana massacre
• House of Lords
• Emergency in Turkana

2010

• Visitors from Turkana
• New Ways Triple Funding
• Parliamentary group