NetApp Volunteer Team (Part 1) – Completes Dinning Hall!
It was last September that Mei visited Mara West as a safari client and the vision of a dinning hall at the Oloosinon Primary Boarding School was born. Since then, many joined her vision and worked to make the project a reality. Several groups joined AMS this year in working on this project - from laying brick walls, to building the roof and furniture, painting, and more! On Thursday of this week the team of 16 volunteers did the final touches in preparation for the opening ceremony which took place September 12th, 2014! A special thank you to all who contributed to this ...
Delays… Meetings… & Hopeful Progress
Long dreamed and talked about, the secondary school for the local Maasai community has had its delays... Today, the school board and lands committee met with Pastor Charles - father to director of Kensington Cares, about overcoming the land disputes and moving ahead with the project. The committee, parents and elders were all in good spirits and made promises to see this project move forward. We are hopeful that in the next few months ground breaking will be taking place!! We look forward to working with many of you in the years to come on making this dream a reality! ...
Painted!
Thanks to the skills of a few local painters the interior walls of the Oloosinon Primary School cafeteria are painted! We are looking forward to the arrival of the NetApp team from California in just three short weeks to complete the project! Plans include the painting of murals, painting the exterior, installing two cookers and having the grand opening September 12th! Children and school staff alike are getting excited to have their first meal in the new dinning hall!
LLU Church Mission Trip
Slightly ahead of schedule, the LLU mission group landed in Nairobi July 7th at the early hour of 1:30 AM. With only one piece of luggage missing, the group loaded up and began their journey towards the Mara. At the half way point the group enjoyed a hot breakfast before arriving at Mara West Camp.
After a much needed night of sleep, the group started their first day at the project - working on the Oloosinon Primary School cafeteria. The school children welcomed the group with a few traditional songs and dances - even getting a few of the group to join the dance!
The ...
Oloosinon Cafeteria – Plastered!
Plastering the Walls!
The project of the Oloosinon Primary School cafeteria was started back in February of this year. We are thankful to all those who gave financially and of their time to make this building go up! While many volunteers come and help get projects up quickly - there is a lot of behind the scene work that our local construction crew does both prior to a groups arrival and after their departure. Currently the crew is busy at work plastering the walls... A special thanks to the crew for all their dedicated hard work!
~FJA
God Giveth & God Taketh Away
We assume things are going to end well - a pregnancy obviously will end with a little bundle of joy. I guess it's a belief God gives us so that we press on in life and look forward to the happy moments.
A women arrived at the clinic in distress - she was full term pregnant and was bleeding quite bad. Patient examined, the decision was made to give some fluids and rest a while. Ultrasound showed the rapid beating of a little heart. As the day progressed the bleeding stopped and contractions came closer. Fully dilated the patient began to push... It was one of those ...
Child Sponsorship Program
In September of 2011 a child sponsorship program was started with a Sabbath School program at a church in Parsons, Tennessee. At that time I had no plans of starting up a sponsorship program with AMS but within a couple of weeks I received an email from Kensington that a woman’s group was coming and the leader was interested in sponsoring two girls. In October the Broad Horizons Women’s Group visited the Emurototo Primary School – and in total sponsored 17 children! Since that time others have heard of the program and it has grown to now involve over 40 children!
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A Volunteer’s Tale – “Arriving to the Mara”
Several months ago my then fiancé asked me if I wanted to go to Africa, specifically Kenya and South Africa after our wedding. April is a fourth-year medical student and just matched for a surgery residency in Corvallis, Oregon. It turns out that she has some time to kill before her rotation starts and had also been in contact with a friend of ours who is working with a remote clinic near the Masai Mara in Kenya. Within a few short weeks April had arranged with her medical school to receive credit for any clinical time she could acquire for both Kenya and at a major ...
UReach Mission Group
The UReach team of 27 from Loma Linda California arrived March 21st at 4:35 AM and headed straight to the Mara. The week was a buzz of activity from visiting a Maasai church, hiking to the "Out of Africa" site, to constructing tables and benches for the new cafeteria and putting the roof on! In addition there was a medical team who assisted at the clinic - giving immunizations and delivering a healthy baby boy and girl! The dental team stayed very busy - seeing over 100 patients in just 5 1/2 days! This was the first time the dental chair was fully operational - many came ...
