A huge, huge thank you!

I can’t believe how great all of you are. THANK YOU!!! So far, we have risen over $700 this past month. A special thank you to: Cynthia Sweet Syl and Lou Nyberg Uncle Ron and Aunt Jan Schaden Gretchen and Ed David and Carla Kuester Uncle Merlin and Aunt LaVerne Melnarik If you want to help contribute or tell your friends and family how they can help you can:

• Make a check out to Global Volunteers Network with MY name on it (somewhere). Send to: 2538 Chamberlain Ave., Madison, WI 53705 (Jason will send to GVN)
• Send cash or check made out to Jason Nyberg (he’ll sign it and put the money in my account). No tax deduction this way but easier for me.
• You can also go thru GVN’s website

My contact info:
Terry’s Child Support & Youth Resource Center
c/o Leah and Renee Schuh
PO Box 2422
90100 Machakos, Kenya
Africa
My cell phone: 011 254 728 218 202 I know that you already know you are doing such a wonderful thing by helping raise money. I’m so excited about the possibility of really making it happen. I’ve been working so hard here to help the kids and to also fundraise in Kenya. Last weekend I helped the Safari 7 Rugby Team (of Kenya, Class B) with a fundraising car wash at a local Petro/Nakumat station. Although I didn’t wash cars, I went up to every car that was purchasing gas and asked them to contribute money or a food contribution towards kids that need meals. We raised some good money! It was fun to meet Rugby players and to work with people that want to make a difference. Just a quick story before I go! Last weekend I was with Leah. We had just arrived in Nairobe and were waiting at a junction where matatus drop/pick up people. We were waiting for Leah’s son to pick us up (thank goodness we weren’t waiting for another “renee dreading” matatu). A young woman about the age of 20 got out of a car with a suitcase, a bag full of pots and pans and a young infant (6 weeks old, we learned later). She had the baby wrapped in a blanket and was carrying all this luggage with her. She walked up to us and asked Leah to hold her baby while she grabbed all of her luggage from the curb. Leah inquired about where she might be going with such a small child and all this luggage (barely able to carry any of it!). She said that the father of her child abandoned her and she was going to the prison (where he was employed as a guard) to find him to make him pay for support for her and her child. Imagine this. Of course she would have gained nothing but harassment from this experience of going to a prison to find this man. Leah, her son and I talked with her and transported her to a nearby woman’s shelter so that she and her child could get some support (in the way of counseling), a good meal and a place to stay at least for a night. It was such a sad situation. It was a Saturday afternoon and I thought to myself…Leah’s work never ends. She does this all the time. She is always there for people in need. I’m not sure I would’ve known how to respond to this situation if it had happened to me in my own country. I am constantly amazed by this woman’s courage and strength. I’m proud to be associated with her and to share my stories an pics! She is an inspiration to the person I aspire to become! Take care all… Blessings!