Joe Shon was guest on KNEB's News Extra
program Tuesday morning. In July, a group will be leaving the USA
for a life changing and rewarding adventure to Meru, Kenya about 200
miles north of Nairobi. The trip is organized through the United
Methodist Synod, which is responsible for 172 churches, 68 schools
and 21,000 school children in the Meru area.
Their focus is to bring supplies and
materials for educational purposes, visiting schools and meeting with
teachers and students as well as conducting medical clinics,
providing doctors and pharmaceutical needs for children and adults.
They will meet with many women's groups since they are the matriarchs
who keep families together.
This year, they will be teaming with
Rotary International to build systems that will bring clean water to
each school. This is a huge undertaking and it is their hope that
within 5 years each school will have clean, filtered water. They
also have a very successful goat program, where selected families are
presented with a female goat and as she has offspring, the first born
is given to another poor family, and so on. Owning a goat can make a
huge difference to a family in Kenya.
Learn more at
trinitylincoln.org/ministries/kenya-connection.
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