Hi!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving; we certainly did!
I just wanted you to know what H.O.P.E. is up to between now and the end of the year.  Thankfully, we’ve made friends we can trust to send money to who will spend it on the orphans and not on themselves.    Linda Onyango is buying uniforms for the graduates of Little Saints (one of the two nursery schools we support in Nakuru) so that they can go to the first grade in January.  Sally is doing the same thing for the orphans in the hills behind Eldoret.  We’ve sent them both $300 so far, and they’ll be getting another $300 next month to finish up and get all the kids into school for the new term. (In Kenya , the school year is the same as the calendar year, and starts in January.)
We also sent Geoffrey Kinyanjui $300 to buy grocery/Christmas packages for his HIV+ patients, most of whom are women with children.  Last year, he gave themn each enough wheat flour and vegetable oil to make chapatis (like fried tortillas) for Christmas – a big Christmas treat.
The biggest project is still the library at Hopewell .  We got the foundation, and walls up, and Mary Hoffman and the SOAR-KENYA group have just about raised enough money for the roof; H.O.P.E. will make up the shortfall.
I’ll try to keep you informed about whatever other projects come up, like the latrines which had to be replaced at Hopewell before the library could even be started. 
So for those of you who have sent H.O.P.E. money lately, we thank you.  That’s where your money has gone.  Good job, all!
Darleen & Johnny