by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Jan 9, 2018 | News and Updates
2018 has just begun, and we are off and running thanks to you! The Togetherness Cooperative in Rwanda is bursting with kids, with innovation and with hope for the future. Togetherness is one special example of what your faithful friendship paired with good local...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Nov 23, 2017 | Misc.
The scent of baking pies, the happiness of loving hugs, faces of sweet children we haven’t seen for too many months, catching up with loved ones here at home. In the middle of all of this joy, friends in East Africa remain near to my heart. Exuberant dancing, joyful...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Mar 24, 2017 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
I met Loveness, a member of New Hope for Girls Organization, in July 2016. Consoler — NHGO’s founder and mom to 32 rescued girls — asked me how old I thought Loveness was. I looked at her small frame and guessed 6 or 7 years old. In fact, Loveness...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Dec 29, 2016 | African Road projects, News and Updates, People
“Hello, my name is Parfaite Nimbona, and I am a single mom and a member of Pilgrims VICOBA group in Burundi. Over the last five years I have tried multiple small businesses (selling clothes, women’s products…) but because they all seemed to fail in the first...
by Kelly Bean, Executive Director | Oct 5, 2016 | News and Updates
In the past week alone… More than 150 children from the indigenous Batwa tribe in Burundi started school. Crops are being planted in three rural Batwa villages. Progress is being made in Kenya on a well project. Funding was committed for teacher training...
