Many thanks to those generous individuals who contributed this week!
Kathy Dewsbury White of Haslett
Judy Huynh of Portland
Tam Krueger of Owosso
For those of you looking for how to contribute, please check two "postings" ago. Also, look at the pictures of the faces of the children who will benefit from your help!
My grandgirls, Lindsay Jane and Sydney Kay, were able to enjoy my adventure in 2013 with Semester at Sea (SAS), but now I have an adventure of a different kind with Jackson Trippers in sunny California in the middle of winter in 2015!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Week One of "socks and underwear campaign" for Kenyan Kids
If you're reading this, it means I probably sent you an invitation and appeal to donate whatever you can to a personal campaign of mine: buying socks and underwear for 43 orphaned children who live in a home and attend a school begun by Anne and George Mungai outside Nairobi. (I'm sorry if I missed you the first time, so please consider that an oversight!)
Please read or re-read the post below to find out more about my goal. If you scroll down and open the pictures I took when volunteering at the home/school, you'll appreciate the work underway to nurture and educate these children that no one else could care for. I invite you to support this effort. Again, you can find the details in last week's post. Meanwhile...
Thanks to friends who made contributions this week!
1. Don and Nancy Bracke from Lainsburg
2. Barbara and Gabe Cherem from Ann Arbor
3. Ron Clark from Grass Lake
4. Renan and Cindy Fontus from Lansing
5. Jackie Hughes from East Lansing
6. Amy Kilbridge from East Lansing
7. Marilyn Lukas from Baltimore, MD
8. Sally McClintock from East Lansing
9. Kathleen Murphy Keedy from Haslett
10. Neil Stoloff from Bloomfield
11. Elsie Swanberg from Chelsea
12. Megan and Andy Thompson from Midland
13. Nancy Wilson from Mason
14. Andrea Yokich and Dave Grebner from Mason
I hope others will join this list of people who support the vision of simply helping in small ways that make a huge difference.
Please read or re-read the post below to find out more about my goal. If you scroll down and open the pictures I took when volunteering at the home/school, you'll appreciate the work underway to nurture and educate these children that no one else could care for. I invite you to support this effort. Again, you can find the details in last week's post. Meanwhile...
Thanks to friends who made contributions this week!
1. Don and Nancy Bracke from Lainsburg
2. Barbara and Gabe Cherem from Ann Arbor
3. Ron Clark from Grass Lake
4. Renan and Cindy Fontus from Lansing
5. Jackie Hughes from East Lansing
6. Amy Kilbridge from East Lansing
7. Marilyn Lukas from Baltimore, MD
8. Sally McClintock from East Lansing
9. Kathleen Murphy Keedy from Haslett
10. Neil Stoloff from Bloomfield
11. Elsie Swanberg from Chelsea
12. Megan and Andy Thompson from Midland
13. Nancy Wilson from Mason
14. Andrea Yokich and Dave Grebner from Mason
I hope others will join this list of people who support the vision of simply helping in small ways that make a huge difference.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Socks and underwear drive for Kenyan kids
If you're accessing this blogspot, you know I've traveled a lot and generally worked wherever I travel. This March I traveled to both Malawi for an educational project and Kenya to help out at a home and school for 43 lucky Kenyan kids. Lucky in that they are orphans of AIDS and have been lovingly rescued off the streets. The home and school is located right outside Nairobi and was begun in 2004 by Anne and George Mungai after the loss of their daughter.
Anne and George were born in Kenya and still have strong family ties there. Anne now teaches at Aldephi University in New York and George teaches high school there. I connected with Anne through at marvelous professional development group in East Lansing: LATTICE.
Thanks to my daughter's technical expertise, you can click on CWMF at the side of this blogspot to see the offical site. However, I'm using this blogspot to urge you to help me collect donations to buy sock and underwear for Anne to take in a large suitcase when she returns to school this summer. If you'd like to help me, please send a check to me, Jan Bernath at 238 Harrison Street, Chelsea, MI 48118. With your contact details, we'll get a tax receipt to you.
I'll need your contribution by July 15! In any case, please enjoy the touching pictures of the children below. Thanks for your consideration.
Anne and George were born in Kenya and still have strong family ties there. Anne now teaches at Aldephi University in New York and George teaches high school there. I connected with Anne through at marvelous professional development group in East Lansing: LATTICE.
Thanks to my daughter's technical expertise, you can click on CWMF at the side of this blogspot to see the offical site. However, I'm using this blogspot to urge you to help me collect donations to buy sock and underwear for Anne to take in a large suitcase when she returns to school this summer. If you'd like to help me, please send a check to me, Jan Bernath at 238 Harrison Street, Chelsea, MI 48118. With your contact details, we'll get a tax receipt to you.
I'll need your contribution by July 15! In any case, please enjoy the touching pictures of the children below. Thanks for your consideration.
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