LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TEAM-UP FOR VOLUNTEER MISSION TRIP BRINGING NEEDED PROGRAMS AND SUPPLIES TO REMOTE VILLAGES IN KENYA
Wellington, FL – Two local organizations, Dream Sponsors, Inc. and The Essence of Africa, Inc. will join forces with North Carolina based non-profit, One Way Out, Inc. for a volunteer mission trip offering services and delivery of much needed supplies to members of several remote African villages located in Kenya this October. Last summer Emmanuel Tasur, the founder of Sirua Aulo Academy, based in Masa Mara, Kenya, was hosted here in Wellington, by the Dream Sponsors team. Sirua Aulo, the #1 school in the district, has nearly 650 youth enrolled between the primary school and high school. Most of these youth come from rural villages and live in extreme poverty. Education is their only hope of a better life. Many youth live in dorms on campus while others walk in excess of 3 to 5 miles each way to get to school. Emmanuel is in need of support to help raise the quality of life and the nutritional diet for these children. Currently, the school can only afford to provide very minimal food options, with limited choices.
Over the years, Dream Sponsors, Inc. has seen the need to advance their mission to sponsor more self-sustaining projects that benefit a larger number of youth, as opposed to just sponsoring one individual child’s school fees, through individual sponsorships matched with youth in need.
Dream Sponsors, Inc. is seeking donations to initiate a Poultry Farming Project to be housed on the Sirua Aulo High School Campus. The Project budget will include construction of a structure and fencing to contain the chickens, purchase of chickens, start-up feed and instructional materials for the students. The project will cost about $6000 USD total. We believe this is a quality project that will not only benefit the youth at the campus, but also serve the local community. This self-sustaining project will provide eggs for the student meals, while also contributing to a farming curriculum at the high
school. This new project will also provide youth with the means to participate in hands on learning about agricultural farming practices. Further they will learn business skills by marketing and selling eggs in the local Maasai Community.
The team hopes to raise the start-up funds prior to this volunteer visit, so they can personally participate in the launch of this project while in the region. Donations are also being accepted to help with transportation costs for delivery of supplies. The Group is bringing paper, pencils and notebooks for the orphans and village children who attend schools where water and electricity are non-existent; socks and sweaters for the women during cooler temperatures; and baseball type hats for the men to protect them from the sun. Donations will also help support the hiring of a Kenyan-based photographer
to document their journey and share the stories of the Maasai women, men and children. The images will be used for educational purposes with our local schools here in the US, providing valuable cultural learning opportunities.
If you are interested in supporting this volunteer mission, please contact Carla B. Neumann, MS, LMFT, Founder and President of Dream Sponsors, Inc. at (561) 795-2223, or visit the GO FUND ME page: Africa Girls! For more information on the organizations visit: www.dreamsponsorsinc.org; www.onewayoutkenya.com; www.teoafrica.com or follow us on Facebook!