Just reporting in from Nairobi Kenya…..

My daughter Holly, our Director, has this trip so well organized. It’s all going like clock work.

We’ve been meeting with the scholarship students, interviewing and photographing them (we still need several more sponsors to assist us here). We think we now have our two big containers ready to be freed from the shipping port with food, clothes, school supplies from Scera and Liberty Elementary schools, medical supplies and school uniforms from Forbes Elementary. We have met with many senior government officials and developed expanded rapport. Also met with other dam building charities, contractors, engineers, women’s group leaders, leaders in Nairobi, and everything is very meaningful and builds on the last step taken to get us to our most ambitious initiatives.

Tomorrow we are going to a national park called Nakuru to see the flamingos and rhinos and other exotic animals in the wild…. but also to interview more of our scholarship students…. and cement the relationship with a new friend of the Charity, Nancy.

The former Kenyan Ambassador, Peter Ogego is arranging a dinner with the Church Humanitarian missionary couple and we’re trying to get a minute to met the new Mission President here, who is a good friend of one of my high school classmates (John Toronto). We’ll be visiting the new Orphan Feeding and Community Center in Asembo which we have made significant contributions to and have been the primary sponsor. The Church will be providing the food there for the next year.

Everything we are doing here is delivering a bountiful harvest of good. It is blessing and enriching the lives, of men, women and mostly children.

We will be inspecting the two new dams in Kibewzi, one built by the Amazing Students at Brighton High School and the other by those great people at Young Living. The sites of the next 20 dams are also being reviewed, photographed, and discussed with the local officials. The Goal is still 1,000 dams over the next 10 years.

Our new alliances with other dam building charities is making this more and more realistic. We now need to get our prelimiinary game plan going with the World Bank, USAID, Simplot, and others to start the granting process for the entire consortium we are building with these other operating entities. We have excellent experts from the World Bank and USAID to assist us.

This is an effort by all of you and us. It’s so fun to be involved with such good friends and fellow supporters of building a better world and ending severe poverty.

VIP trip in November. If you’re interested please contact me.

Holding back the Lions…..
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Ron Hatfield
Ron@QuietWay.org