Please do. Just hear me out.
It has been a long time since I have written an entry in this blog. I have been busy, caught up in other projects, yada, yada, yada. But the kids are still there! They get up every day, knowing they will have food because we have supplied it for the past year and a half. They have gone to school everyday, in hopes for the opportunity to continue their schooling in high school and possibly university. Just because I haven't written in this blog, they have not stopped existing. Sometimes Kenya seems like a lifetime and a world away. I don't really like that feeling. I don't like that sometimes I forget about the kiddos. I know they never forget about me.
Last year we (you and me) supported several kids with $500 donations so they were able to attend local high schools. As we make our last charitable contributions for the year, I'm asking you to PLEASE PLEASE consider continuing your support of these kids. They will be beginning their second year of high school in January if they have the support. Please consider continuing your support for Alvin, Gad, Winlite, Issah, Everlyne, Harrison, Collins, and Ruth. You can contact me at candee.holmes@gmail.com for questions.
I also encourage you to come together as friends, neighbors and families and consider giving $1500 which will feed all of the children at the Virginia Home for an entire month. Not only does eating sustain life and health, but it gives these kids energy and a chance to laugh, learn, grow and just be kids! I have told you in the past how I have seen these kids change and thrive just by providing food daily. How basic is that?
We at ACO are trying to decide how to proceed with the next "crop" of aspiring high school kiddos from the Virginia Home. The best we can determine there are 10 of them. None of them currently have the funds to attend the local high schools. Tom Stickney, the director of ACO, told me it's okay to tell the kids we have to back off, it's okay to lessen our commitment to the Virginia Home...
I don't think it is okay. I can't look at these faces:
and think to myself, "We'll just pull our support of these kiddos...it'll be fine." So what can I do? I can try hard to raise money to meet their basic needs and give these kiddos in one teeny tiny corner of the world an opportunity to laugh, play, and grow up like our own kids! I can find people who want to support these kids for the next 4 years at $500/yr so they can better themselves by finishing high school!
Would you consider going on this journey with me/us? You can give financial support (in whatever amount you can) now and then (drumroll plrease....)you can prayerfully consider joining us on our next visit to Kenya in July 2013. We would love for you to go with us and experience what we have had the opportunity to experience. I'll be happy to answer any questions or have lunch with you and visit about Kenya (yes, Cynthia Stick I haven't forgotten you I promise!)
I know everyone is pulled tight at Christmas, stretched in every direction and the last thing we (I am SO guilty of this) think about is a little place called the Virginia Home, in a little town called Nakuru, in a little country called Kenya that is SO far away. I know that there are many many people right in our own backyard that need our help. But I also know that these kids NEVER forget about me (or you for that matter), even when I forget about them.
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