Locals send Kenyan orphans hope

RONAN -- Lugging as many suitcases as the airline would let, Jack Stivers, the MSU Lake County Extension Agent, Ashley Vincent, a recent University of Idaho grad, and Madeline Hewston, an elementary education student at Salish Kootenai College, boarded a plane June 10 for a 30-hour flight to Nairobi, and then a drive to east Kenya to the small town of Matuu. In Matuu is the orphanage Stivers began two years ago. The number of orphans and their many needs went to Kenya and amazed him. Stivers met Meshack Itumo, a social worker if Stivers was interested in starting an orphanage who inquired him. Stivers consented, bought five acres and both guys started building an orphanage. The orphans are in such demand of clothing and shoes that the shoes don't have to fit, Stivers said, as long as there is shoe that is right and a left shoe. Boys will wear woman's clothes, and women will wear boy's clothes. Word circulated about the children's necessities and the orphanage. Polson resident Larry Robertson spearheaded a clothing and fund drive for "Jack's Orphanage," and Mission Valley residents answered by contributing more than $8,00 cheap Air Max 2013. in monetary contributions. The funds will be utilized for healthcare for infrastructure, the children and a water system, Stivers said. "Cash goes 10 times further over there," Stivers explained, although it takes more to get things done. Bricks are made by hand, for instance. "Jack was actually impressed with the generosity of (the contributions)," he said. The stuffed bags and boxes filled Stiver's https://www.purchaserunning.com/2014-new-nike-free-run-50-vrouwen-roze-sapphire-blauw-running-schoenen.html.pickup's back before (the left for the airport. purchaserunning.he group will return after the Fourth of July to America.