Persistence

“Success is the sum of small things repeated day in and day out” – Robet Collier.   This month Ameena Project celebrates a full two years since teachers Mercy and Hillary approached Ian and Anne about starting a new school.  While in some ways the...

Recent Events

As many of you know, Anne and I visited our program in Kiang’ombe in late January.  Our objectives for the trip were to do more in depth community needs assessment, review program operations, and complete annual planning for the coming year.  We spent a lot of...

School Readiness

In Kenya, the school year starts in January and over the entire year of 2012 we worked hard with our older students to prepare them for success in the local school system. We fed their bodies, minds, and spirits creating dramatic changes in all of them.  16 children...

One Happy Ending

Yesterday while visiting homes in Kiang’ombe we came across a house that at first appeared vacant.  A quiet cry drew us in and alone inside we found a woman in bed nearly unable to sit up for the pain she was in.  When asked what was wrong she initially said she...