SCHOOL SPONSORSHIPS

Hello Friends and Family,
B&B Relief is beginning a Sponsorship Program for the children of Amani School.
If you would like to sponsor one year of education for a child in the village, than we can show you how.

SPONSORSHIPS- For $150 USD this child will receive:
- One Year of School Registration Fees Paid
- Free Lunch is included with school fees
- A Uniform (shorts and top, or a dress)
- School Shoes and Socks
- The necessary curriculum books for his/her class
- A Book Bag/Back Pack
- The remaining aprox. $25 will go to the general school fund to help pay for school supplies for the classroom. (ie: pencils, paper, colors, teachers ect.)

If you would like to sponsor a child, we can accept your donation through B&B Relief bank account. We will remain in Kenya for 6 weeks to be sure 100% of the funds go directly to the child and school. To make this a more personal relationship, we can photograph and relay information about your sponsored child via the internet while we are still here. You can send photos and letters to your sponsored child via mail after we have left. We hope to open the doors connecting them and you to experience another world of understanding and compassion.

HOW TO:
You can make a donation to B&B Relief at any branch of:
Bank name: US Bank
Account Name: B&B Relief
Account Number: 1536 5700 1902

For donations outside of USA (additional information needed)
Name of account holders: Brian Luzader and Brenda Luzader
Mailing address of account holders: 525 NE South Shore rd, Portland OR 97211
Bank Routing number: 123 000 220
Bank address:1445 N Hayden Island drive Portland, OR 97217
Phone: 503-283-9747 bank managers name: Naoki
Fax: 503-275-5494
Please inform us that you have made a donation and which child/children you would like to sponsor and we will continue our correspondence with follow up pictures and information.
(remember: B&B Relief is not a registered non-profit organization. You will not receive a tax benefit from your donation)

The Next Children up for Sponsorship are:

FATUMA - Age 5 (F)

Lucy- Age 4 (F)

Mwanakombo- Age 4 (F)

Progress Report

“All things are made possible with hard work, perseverance, patience and cold Guinness” Proverbs B:B

We are happy to report that the school building project is going great. Two new permanent classrooms are built. Tables, desks and chairs are filling the empty rooms as well as color posters and learning tools. The dining hall/community center and kitchen are still under construction.
Two new latrines are finished and help improve some of the health and sanitation problems that exist in the village. School has resumed with a lunch program that now feeds 50-60 malnourished children and the student enrollment is climbing each week. The school compound sings out children’s laughter, song, dance and continuous play. In the afternoon, the classes fill with adults who are learning to hold a pencil, read & write, take care of their family and practice commerce. A positive air is blowing through the village.

Upon arrival we had assessed the village and its troubles, seeing a huge dysfunctional crisis with unemployed adults, political tensions with conflicting tribes and un-stimulated children living and schooling in dirty and unsanitary conditions.
We vowed to start anew with providing a safe, clean and stable learning environment for the children. Positive motion has now paved the way for unexpected progress. The adult education classes have expanded to 5 days a week including literacy, a small soap making business and English classes that I am teaching. They are all learning to work together through experience, despite their differences in religion, tribe, age, sex and educational background.


We are also excited that our friends Ami and Arden from the US, have just arrived bringing supplies, to offer art classes. For the next 6 weeks, the Amani School Children will have art/crafts incorporated into their curriculum and Art Workshops will be available to the village on Saturdays.


Some of our best news included a visit from the Bouter family in Holland. They have pledged to finance the building supplies to double the construction project and pay for one year of lunch food for the school children. We are now drawing up plans to add more classrooms, and started digging a well on site. We also contacted a local doctor who has agreed to provide free medical treatment to stabilize the school children’s health. It is all fantastic news for the village of Maweni!

However this expensive, demanding, volunteer workload has just doubled for us. (Personally we had visions of starting the New Year on a beach in Thailand, swinging from a hammock trying to remember an easy, stress free, life.) Instead, we have cancelled those plans and decided to extend our stay in Kenya for two more months.
To see…‘The winds of change’ circle through this little piece of the world.

It was not a difficult decision to make, as it has become impossible to deny these people an opportunity to have a hand in brining their country out of poverty. We can not deny people who want and deserve a better life and are willing to work for it. We can not deny people who want and need change. Our sacrifice is minimal to the overall gain in, raising a village.