September Departure for Kenya

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September departure for Kenya!

Excitement is happening in our households as we get ready for departure in 37 days!  Chance and I leave from Portland a few hours after Allison leaves from Phoenix.  We will meet in Amsterdam on a Monday morning and be in Nairobi that evening.   

We have several projects with the Youth Art Project in Embulbul that will be the focus of this trip.  

• Reusable Shopping Bags are needed!  We will provide households with shopping bags to help reduce the amount of plastic waste in this small community and to teach families how to reuse items.  Trips to the local markets (on foot) will encourage women to purchase food stables and the shopping bags provide a way to carry their purchases home.

• Children's clothing is needed for the Youth Art Project mentoring program. All children receive school supplies and clothing at YAP.  We are in need of socks, underwear, and lightweight T-shirts, shorts and dresses.

• Mentoring of teen girls, through the YAP, allows us to continue relationships we made in 2010.  Not only will we be tutoring the girls, due to a lengthy teachers strike, but we will provide opportunities to take a "field trip" out of the slum and into the Nongh Hills for some hiking and "girl time".  

We will be spending time with Eunice and Caleb and the Widows of St. Martha's.  They are already working on new jewelry pieces for us to bring back.

A day with Eunice and Mary at the Global Bag Project is also on our list of must do's.  Yes, we will be bringing back new bags too!

Each of these projects are supported by our church, Vancouver First UMC, through prayer, donations and financial support.  You can help too!  Shopping bags and children's clothes can be dropped off at Vancouver First or we can pick them up.  Financial donations to support the projects can be sent to Vancouver First UMC, designated for Kenya. 

Be sure and bookmark Dust of Africa.  We want each of you to be a part of our Kenyan adventure.

Most importantly, please keep us in prayer as we travel and for our ministry in Embulbul and Kibera.  

Becki, Allison and Chance