We are excited to release this telling photo essay by Steve Kotvis about our “Craft Ladies”. Steve is the very talented photographer who has just returned from another trip visiting our program. You will see more if his work in the coming months.
Volunteer Travel Grant-Katelyn
This year the camp program included the first-ever Friends of Ngong Road Camp Volunteer Travel Grant Award Winner – Katelyn Pastick. Katelyn is a senior at the University of Minnesota, studying medicine and planning to enter medical school next fall. She was the person selected from five applicants for the new Volunteer Travel Grant award introduced this year.
[Read more…]Annual Gatherings-2014
Friends of Ngong Road held gatherings in seven locations in September and early October to learn about and celebrate another year of transforming the lives of children served by our program in Nairobi.
Featured guests from Kenya: Naomi and Tunda
This year two of our staff members, Naomi Kamanda (head of the Secondary Department) and Tunda Lepore (head of the Primary Department) traveled to the U.S. and visited Minneapolis/St. Paul and Walker in MN; St. Ansgar and Decorah in IA; Chicago, IL; and Milwaukee and Hayward in WI to meet friends and supporters of Friends of Ngong Road. An eighth gathering, without our Kenya visitors, (but with a visit from Paula) will occur in Seattle, WA in November.
The 2014 “Send a Kid to Camp” Campaign Was a Smash Success!
As you know, we ran a special “Send a Kid to Camp” fundraising campaign from May through July of this year. Our objective was to raise $20,000 to cover the cost of the camp in 2014. Thanks to your support our total contributions were well past that! We are so delighted to have achieved such success in this campaign.
In August, over 350 children in Kenya experienced what they all call the best week of the year. They will have eaten well, escaped the confines of the slums in Nairobi, and had their lives enriched with games, arts and crafts, and just plain fun. The $20,000+ we have raised covered it all! Thank you for making it possible!
Letter From Nairobi – U.S visit
Dear Friends,
This has been a busy time here in Nairobi at Ngong Road Children’s Foundation.
Camp and especially the volunteers
The camp was once more an exciting time as usual. The volunteers from the U.S. were awesome since each of them had work to do during Camp. Margaret and Karen helped to make kites; Megan did a role model essay. Ethan taught Frisbees which is a new game for Kenya and Katelyn did a science project about volcanoes. We had two NRCF board members who were also able to attend and participate together with the children, Robert and Edna.
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