I just want to thank all the people who have helped with Soar-Kenya this year of 2008. Soar-K has helped in many ways this last year. First off, Soar sent app. 2 thousand each month to help with the food shortage caused by the violence. The cargo arrived after the violence and I can only imagine how welcomed those supplies were. Soar was able to continue sending 6 students on to further education. Soar built the dormitory and contributed to supplying it with beds. The cargo will be supplying the library with books. Harrison Agonda ,(Children’s Charity Centre), relocated during the violence back to his hometown of Homa Bay. Soar managed to purchase some land for him to relocate to. Soar has donated 600.00 to the beginning of getting a crop planted on that land and also to the beginning of a poultry project. Soar continues to help Harrison and the orphans he is taking care of. Soar continues to need sponsors for the many orphans. Currently 9 orphans have sponsor who donate monthly. Pauline at Barut Primary and Nelly at Hopewell strech this money very far. The primary student being sponsored is taken care of and then the money seems to go beyond that student to helping their families and also the handicapped students at the school. I will be trying to record information on the students sponsored and also try to get a true picture of the students that need assistance when I travel there in Jan. I feel this is a very good project but I never want it to cause hardship with any of the donors here either. No one is locked into a contract when they sponsor a student, just help out as you are able to. I feel it is important also to know that no one in Kenya has ever asked for help with these orphans, that was Soar’s idea to begin this project. I will try to gather as much information I can when I travel in Jan. Another project Soar supported is the sanitary napkin project Pat Werner works on annually. These supplies help keep the girls attending school in 12 schools in the area now. There are many other projects and ways Soar has helped out in Kenya this past year. I basically want to thank everybody who has helped. Soar gave internet service to Hopewell for a Christmas gift so hopefully communication will be better in 2009. I will try to post from there when Mary and I, Steve and Pat Werner ,travel there in 2009. Thankyou , Don Hoffman
Don & Mary and all the People of Soar-Kenya,
Merry Christmas! You are the biggest blessing that came into our lives. Thank you for being our true friends. Thank you for the enormous support, especially when life became extremely difficult as in early this year when our country burst into violence. As we celebrate the birth of our Lord and savior tomorrow, I want to wish you God’s blessings and all the happiness that this world can give. I look forward to being at the airport, Don and Mary when you land and seeing you again. Thank you Soar-Kenya for the wonderful Christmas gift……a birthday present for me you sent through Nelly.
God bless you mightily and keep you safe always.
With love, respect and admiration.
Vitalice
We are soon beginning a rabbit project patterned after Heifer Project. We will be providing rabbits to selected families who will later give baby rabbits to other participants in the project. The second group will later do the same for another family, and so it goes.
Please make www.goodsearch.com your default search engine. Each time it is used, we earn one cent. If you scroll down and choose to shop at the stores on the main page, we also receive a percentage of that. It’s an easy way to give that won’t cost you a cent.
Don’t know how to make it your default page? It’s not hard. Go to the top of your screen and look for tools. Click on it and scroll to the bottom of the page where it says internet options and click on that. Click inside the top dialog box (Home page) and type http://www.goodsearch.com Now go to the bottom of that screen and click ok. That’s all there is to it.
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
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
| Dear Mary,Thanks very much for the money you did send in July. This is how it was used:Knapsack sprayer 11,000 D.A.P. fertilizer 2,300 Chemicals 2, 400 Wage for farm workers 1,900 1 she goat 1,000 Our family 855 TOTAL 19,455 I did leave some pictures in a cyber cafe to be sent to you, I am not sure whether they succeeded. I will check on Wednesday in Homa Bay as I will be sending pictures of individual children, we are already sponsoring in our house in the school. God be with you. Much greetings from Irene and the children. Greet everybody there. HARRISON AGONDA |
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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Hi Mary Hope you are all fine. We are doing well. We reopened School on 1st Sep. I received Ksh 13,000 on 18th August. Our pig project is doing well. The pig had eight piglets delivered on 23rd of August. The second of our cows delivered on 6th September. From the cows produce we are able to feed the pig and her piglets. I have attached photos for our Soar children (four) Anthony, Cherono, Dennis and Stecy, they are doing well. The other four children are physically disabled in primary whom we are feeding, together with two more in the Nursery School who are not in the photo. The group photo shows some of the orphans that we feed with the money from SOAR including the son of Mr. Rashid of Hopewell . I am feeling well though still on medication. Greet everybody. Thank you Pauline |
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