Getting Ready

As I prepare to go back to Kenya I am excited, but I also realize that with 4 new team members it will be very life changing for them. They will interface with many orphans, students, AIDS widows, grandmothers raising children, street kids, Masaai women and teachers working with few supplies. They will work at health clinics and see children ill from worms, starvation, and stomach ailments - things that are just not common in our society where we have plenty.
They will learns the importance of water and how wasteful we are in our society and they will come to understand how valuable a commodity that food is in Kenya where people are now dying of starvation because of the drought.

The number one killer in North America is overeating and the complications it brings. The number one killer in Africa is starvation due to the lack of food and without food the susceptibility to diseases.

We will do what we can while we are there and hopefully be ambassadors for Canada and for peace.

New logo

Hope2kenya has a new logo. We have always been known as Team Tumaini (which means hope in Swahili). We will still continue to be that team when we travel but our overall logo has now been added. It was designed by Sean Hamilton of Toronto and really says it all. Our goal is to bring hope to the children of Kenya by providing education, clean water, food and safe places to stay. We also try to provide widows with skills so they can earn money to look after their children.

The blue in the logo represents water and the yellow represents the hope that we try to provide. The child in the middle with upraised arms says it all.

Thanks Sean for the wonderful work.

New Logo

Excitement is beginning

We are now at our six week mark and the team is getting excited. Next Friday (Augsut 7th, 2009) we will be having our last fundraiser in this area. Caren Gagne, a team member, owns a restaurant and she is hosting a pot luck dinner and music jam. There will be both a silent and live auction as well as a 50/50 draw. If you are in the area of the La Tea Da Tearoom in Rutherglen drop in and say hi to everyone and help support the cause,

Sharon Kutchaw and Mary Crowder are two team members from Sudbury. They have worked very hard at raising funds for the cause. They have done silent auctions at their local golf course, held a BBQ, done a Toonie sale at a Mall in Sudbury and have sold our HOPE necklaces. They are fantastic and hard workers and have helped add funds for the projects we will do in Kenya.

All the funds that we raise go directly towards projects in Kenya. Each team member pays all their own expenses for the trip. We take our funds and purchase stuff for the projects while we are there and then we know that the money is being used directly to help the children and widows that we work with.

Thanks to everyone who has donated funds to help with all our endeavours.