Soar Kenya

Everyone involved with Soar-Kenya should be very happy!! The fund raiser held Sunday at the Legion was successful. We took in 7400.00 and had three more orphans sponsored. Ruth Gibbs and I were able to send out money on Monday to Children’s Charity Center, Barut Primary and Hopewell. The money is going for food,beds,medicine,and college. I will post some more details and pictures soon. I just wanted to give a huge thankyou to all the people who helped make this a successful day and to all the people that supported it. Thankyou- Mary Hoffman , Treasurer

Please join us for Soar-Kenya’s second annual buffet and silent auction !!

When:    Sunday November 9, 2008

Where:  American Legion Post 360, 417 E. Main St., Waunakee,Wi.

Why:      Fundraiser/Silent Auction to support ongoing projects in Nakuru, Kenya

Time:     Noon-5:00pm        Auction closes at 4:00pm

Cost:      $ 10.00 per plate, children eat free

The Legion has generously donated their facility for our function. The proceeds from the bar will support the Legion.

Please join us for a worthwhile, fun filled afternoon of activities. We have a band coming to play and children’s activities starting at 2pm. It should be a great day with 100% of the money going to Kenya to continue our many projects. Our silent auction will be featuring original works of art from the students and staff of Hopewell.

Hello Mary

That is wonderful news.We will do everything we can to connect with the potential guests in Feb.Just let us know the developments along this line.Many thanks for the great thoughts you always have of Hopewell and the neighboring schools.We pray that the financial hiccup your country is facing is resolved soon…..down here we say that when America sneezes,the rest of the world catches a cold.It is true.

Regards to Don and your boys….a person’s greatness is not judged by how much he/she owns but by the kind of family he has brought up.

This is a picture of the students that were provided uniforms from the women in Verona. Our many thanks to them for their generous gift.

Vitalice

“From those to whom much has been given,much shall be required”

Vitalice Kahendah

Hopewell High School

P.O.Box 7068,Nakuru 20110,Kenya

Cell Phone: +254-723236874

             +254-733517519

Telephone:  +254-202078033

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Hello Don & Mary

I have been out of circulation for ages now and feel so bad I havent written to Hopewell’s greatest friends in such a long time.Please accept my sincere apologies for this lapse. The Johnsons who are in Kenya now feel that I have been spread out so thin and shoud drop 50% of the responsibilities………especially the ones not directly related to Hopewell.I am considering doing so.

How is Waunakee at this time of the year?How is your kind and most loving family? And how is the farm?I hope SOAR-K is doing great and you are always in our thoughts and prayers. We are because you are!

Nelly bought uniforms and shoes for the most desperate kids and they were most excited with this generous gift from the Catholic Women group.Please pass our sincere gratitude to them for this selfless action that has brought permanent smiles in the faces of so many kids.Several were walking barefeet before this geerous gift came along.Gifts from FOGO(did I get that right?) made the process of teaching and learning at the Hopewell Junior Acdemy a lot easier and fun.The smiling faces of the kids tells it all. I am enclosing pictures of high school kids who were bought uniforms and those of the junior school with their gifts from FOGO.

Be blessed you kind people.Pass our regards to all BIG hearted people who make SOAR-K and who have immensely uplifted our lives.

VITALICE

“From those to whom much has been given,much shall be required”

Vitalice Kahendah

Hopewell High School

P.O.Box 7068,Nakuru 20110,Kenya

Cell Phone: +254-723236874

             +254-733517519

Telephone:  +254-202078033

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Mr. Agonda ran the Children’s Charity Center in the slum in Nairobi that Soar supported.  He went back to his birthplace when the violence broke out. His father has a Christian school there for 250 children. Soar-Kenya purchased 2 hectres of land for Harrison and he is busy trying to supply food for the many children at school. It is with great difficulty that he communicates , so we are happy he wrote and has send photos. Soar will continue to help Harrison  become self sufficient. He was able to sell enough produce to purchase two goats. This is a very positive surprise.

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Hello Don & Mary& Soar group,

I hope and pray that you are doing fine. I have been out of touch for a jolly long time and that is most unfair to my dearest friends and the greatest and untiring supporters of Hopewell. I am good and so are the others (I guess). Rashid is still away upcountry rebuilding his house which got burnt down while Nelly is somewhere out of Nakuru (don’t know where….she said she was going on some soul searching mission). So Vitalice is watching their houses as well as playing the chief guard at Hopewell. The holiday has been relaxing and I have enjoyed this break. Spent lots of time reading the exceptional classics and rare books that came in the container, watching movies and just unwinding. This comes to an end though tomorrow when school reopens.

How is the farm? How are our many kind and loving friends at SOAR-K doing? The US elections have generated immense excitement down here and our news channels are filled with Obama and McCain most of the day. You would think we are having a repeat election in Kenya.

The library project which had stalled for lack of funds due to the massive inflation in Kenya restarts this coming week. The Johnsons will be sending funds to complete the building (plastering, fixing of doors and windows and doing a good floor screed). We look forward to this since our many volumes of valued books can find safe and secure refuge. It will not be in a usable form as a library because of lack of furnishing which we hope can be a later project. But we will be asking the Johnsons if they could stretch a little book and fit in a few shelves to store the books as we wait for a time when furniture funding will come through.

The school farm has taken off in a big and interesting way. A group of teachers have taken over the farm and are doing an excellent job on it. They have grown assorted vegetables. The whole idea is that with them managing the farm, it sets the school free on that end and when they harvest, the school will buy from them at a discount/charity price. This will be w in win situation for everyone as the teachers will have an additional income besides their wages and the farm will greatly be managed with the school getting a good supply of farm produce. The project is being spearheaded by the school’s agricultural department. Some sort of private management.

As we plan to start this final term of the school year, I wish to thank you most sincerely for the endless efforts you have made in seeing us through all the difficulties and ensuring that the Hopewell community is comfortable and the process of teaching and learning can proceed well. God bless you mightily for your big hearts.

Vitalice

‘Nobody should seek his own good,but the good of others’- 1 Corinthians 10:24

Vitalice Kahendah             

from Nathan  ( one of our second year students)

Soar-Kenya finally received a few pictures of the arrived cargo.  My favorite is Peter being helped into the wheelchair. Today Mitch Judd of American Rivers also credited Soar-Kenya $1200.00 toward our next shipment. A connection in Kenya finally admitted a mistake! This shipment had a lot of problems along the way but as you can see product looks like it arrived in good shape. I wonder at what point the boys hand removing a 400 lb. pallet realized it weighed that much? I haven’t heard of anyone getting injured, but I’m sure there were a lot of sore backs!! I hope that the contents of the container helps in many ways, mostly to show we care and are here to help however we are able to.