World AIDS Day 2010 Kayafungo, Kenya
During a soap making workshop for the Muungano business run by the KayafungoMungano womens group we discussed the HIV epidemic here in Kayafungo. “HIV is a large problem in kayafungo. There are many orphans here. Everyone in Kayafungo is effected. the whole family is effected if one person is positive. Even if there is not … Read more
What color is development?
While only being in Kayafungo living and working with the group of women who have named themselves the Kayafungo Mungano Women’s group (mungano meaning united together in Swahili), I have come to realize that while development work at first seems like an adventure, it turns into something completely different. It is a something that will … Read more
Kayafungo Diaries…
Posted by Saul Garlick, Executive Director We are in the midst of the second phase of our Global Development Program in Kayafungo, Kenya. As we speak, the students are working hard to complete monitoring work on our past development projects. They are meeting with community members and leaders, teachers, students and partners to understand the … Read more
8 minutes, Great Music… the Kenya-Lily Story
Posted by Saul Garlick, Executive Director, Lily Muldoon, SMRC project director, is back and we have the story to show you in a beautiful new video presentation developed by Andrea Calderson. Watch the 8 minute film and find yourself feeling totally inspired.
Lily Sets the Bar High
Lily Muldoon, project director for Kenya, has just returned to the United States. Her work is a testament to the power of individuals to improve lives. SMRC has worked with her in Kenya for 3 years, and we have achieved life changing improvements working in partnership with the Kayafungo community.
Priorities during tough times, a perspective
Everywhere I look, Americans are in a blind panic about the economy: TV commentators, my father, my professors, my friends. I need to figure out where the money for my last semester of college is going to come from. The first luxuries we all cut from our personal budgets – before restaurants, video games, or manicures – is always ‘charity.’ It’s the easiest thing in the world to take out of a budget because it won’t affect our lives in the least. It’s hard to even picture how it might affect someone else’s life.
Happy World Water Week?
Posted by Saul Garlick, Executive Director This morning, I woke up to an email from my father, it read: “Subject: water; Did you see the report of the World Water Forum meetin in Instanbul, this week? By 2030 when Holden (my nephew) will be 23, there will be 3.9 billion people living under ‘severe water … Read more
Dam Under Construction in Kenya!
Posted by Saul Garlick, Executive Director Watch the latest film from Kayafungo, Kenya, where a dam is under construction thanks to your generosity! The dam will serve 900 families in the area.
Kenya Waits for Rain – Article Just Published
In a new article written by Lily Muldoon, Kenya Project Director, the challenges facing Kayafungo are elucidated. Read it at http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/innovations/data/000086
Your Impact in Pictures – Kenya
Last week, SMRC asked its supporters to help us build a Dam and a Secondary School. We were running short of funds, and your help would get us past the finish line. Well, you did it, and here are the pictures to show your impact. Thank you so much!!!
