I am writing to update the blog. We are working on fundraising opportunities to help much needed projects in development areas in Africa. I have also decided to go over to Africa earlier than planned to help lay the ground work for the team coming in the end of May. I will be meeting with the students of Daystar University and also preparing the lodging and projects we will be doing. I am going to forgo going to Garissa, Kenya even though I really wanted to help out with one of the biggest refugee camps there called Dadaab. It is home to over 160,000 refugees, mostly from neighboring Somalia. I was warned that it was not safe enough for me to go at this time. I am getting more and more excited as time gets closer. Please visit our website all donations help. If we don't spread hope.....who will?
“Dum spiro, spero (Latin), "While I breath, I hope"”
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Hope Without Borders- Africa 2010
Hey-
This is my first blog it is Feb. 9th, 2010. I created this blog to help raise money and support for those less fortunate in Africa. I know many people say, "why go to africa when there are so many that need help here in the states?" My answer to that is simple, I was born in Nairobi, Kenya and therefore my heart feels for the people of that country. Also, for anyone who has visited there knows that the suffering there is unimaginable compared to the suffering here. No food, no clean water, no electricity and no hope. But there is hope and that is what I plan to spread one community at a time. Unfortunatley, I can not do it on my own. Therefore, I have partnered with an organization near and dear to my heart, Hope Without Borders.
Hope Without Borders, (HWB) is a non-profit organization started by my parents. They were missionaries in Somalia during the time of my birth. What seperates this organization from others is that we are not looking to send aid like food and water because those are temporary things that put a "bandaid over a gushing wound." Instead, we plan to teach communities to help themselves. If you want any information on the amazing things that we are doing through HWB visit the website, http://www.hwb-intl.org/
My goal is to raise money to support these projects that allow communities in Africa to help themselves. We are bringing a team of volunteers to Kenya from MAY-JUNE to work on community development projects. Please visit my blog for weekly updates and fundraising opportunities. My plan is to blog daily while in africa to show those supporters where their money truely goes from your hands to those most deserving in africa.
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
-Emily Dickinson
For donations please visit:
http://www.hwb-intl.org/
http://www.facebook.com/: join hope without borders causes
This is my first blog it is Feb. 9th, 2010. I created this blog to help raise money and support for those less fortunate in Africa. I know many people say, "why go to africa when there are so many that need help here in the states?" My answer to that is simple, I was born in Nairobi, Kenya and therefore my heart feels for the people of that country. Also, for anyone who has visited there knows that the suffering there is unimaginable compared to the suffering here. No food, no clean water, no electricity and no hope. But there is hope and that is what I plan to spread one community at a time. Unfortunatley, I can not do it on my own. Therefore, I have partnered with an organization near and dear to my heart, Hope Without Borders.
Hope Without Borders, (HWB) is a non-profit organization started by my parents. They were missionaries in Somalia during the time of my birth. What seperates this organization from others is that we are not looking to send aid like food and water because those are temporary things that put a "bandaid over a gushing wound." Instead, we plan to teach communities to help themselves. If you want any information on the amazing things that we are doing through HWB visit the website, http://www.hwb-intl.org/
My goal is to raise money to support these projects that allow communities in Africa to help themselves. We are bringing a team of volunteers to Kenya from MAY-JUNE to work on community development projects. Please visit my blog for weekly updates and fundraising opportunities. My plan is to blog daily while in africa to show those supporters where their money truely goes from your hands to those most deserving in africa.
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
-Emily Dickinson
For donations please visit:
http://www.hwb-intl.org/
http://www.facebook.com/: join hope without borders causes
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