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.
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!
Socks for Kenyan Kids!
ReplyDeleteHI Jan
ReplyDeleteGood luck! Perhaps you'll share your stories with my Silver Maples residents when you return.
I'll plan to send a check for your efforts.
Take care!
shawn
One wonderful part of this gift to the Kenyan Kids is that it goes directly to them, without passing through the cumbersom, inefficient rules of charitable organizations--thanks to Jan.
ReplyDeleteElsie