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Highlights of 2005

» Mama na Dada Africa opened a day care and preschool center for orphans in Kunya Village.

» Common Ground Program opened the Chris Halperin Memorial Clinic in Kiminini.

» Village Volunteers partnered with Open Hearts Sister Village to bring power to the Chris Halperin Memorial Clinic and Common Ground’s Pathways Academy in Kiminini.

» Village Volunteers received funding to implement youth-run bee keeping projects, benefiting 250 at-risk orphans and their siblings, at Common Ground Program, Namunyak Maasai Welfare, Mama na Dada Africa, Rabuor Village Project, and Mama Maria Clinic and Community Development.

» Common Ground received funding from the Pangea Foundation to manage a wide scale organic farming project that benefits the rural communities around Kiminini.

» Village Volunteers became a Cottonwood Fellow and was granted funding for Namunyak Maasai Welfare women to start a poultry-raising micro-enterprise.

» Village Volunteers entered into a new partnership with Angel Covers for the purpose of establishing college funds and opportunities for orphan sponsorship. A young man from a rural community, who qualified for a medical education, was designated to be the first college fund recipient.

» Through Village Volunteers, donors supported micro-enterprises such as brick-making; poultry and goat raising; crafts; and farming.

» Namunyak Maasai Welfare started a women’s craft cooperative, making beaded dog collars, for distribution in the United States via Village Volunteers.

» Village Volunteers raised funds to buy milking goats, chickens and dairy cows for distribution to partner villages.

» Village Volunteers raised funds needed to donate two cows to the Rabuor Village Project Day Care Center to provide nutrition for the children.

» Village Volunteers collected 5,000 donated seed packets and drip irrigation systems for all partner villages.

 

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