Ruth Gibb’s hosted a fundraiser breakfast at her church in Pardeeville last Sunday. She along with friends have raised the one thousand dollars needed to do the new kitchen at Hopewell High School. Steve and Patricia Werner gave a very generous donation to this cause also, which will allow for the kitchen to actually have some supplies!!! Soar-Kenya now has the funds t0 build a new kitchen. The kitchen serves a minimum of 800 people per day at Hopewell.  The old kitchen needed some help. It had a tin roof that leaked and open fires with kettles on top to cook. The smoke was so thick you couldn’t see the cooks to talk to them. Don and I , got some stove pipes when we were there which helped a little but to have a complete new kitchen will be wonderful for them. Soar-Kenya is purchasing a very small plot of land in which to relocate this kitchen. Soar raised money for the land in Nov. at the silent auction and dinner.  Steve Werner is working extremely hard to raise funding through Rotaries to fund a water storage tank to be filled from harvested rain water off the roofs of the new library and classrooms. The water tanks will be placed where the current kitchen is now.  Soar is hoping to locate the new kitchen closer to the water ,vegetables, and compost area. It is so exciting to be able to move forward with enough funding to do this project. I will post photos as soon as its built. Thankyou to Steve, Pat Ruth and the wonderfully generous people of Pardeeville Wisconsin. Mary Hoffman-Treasurer