We serve others . . .

“We serve others, to lift them up, so they in turn may serve.”

There are some many things that touch our lives and traveling to a developing nation to perform service is one those things which changes a person forever.

My first trip to Kenya was when I came to do my student teaching – thus began both my love for East Africa. This love was cemented with my Fulbright Fellowship to Rwanda. Each journey I take and each time I perform service work my love for the people and the countries to which I travel becomes even greater in scope and sequence. There is no place in my being that makes me believe that the people of Kenya do not have the abilities and fortitude to overcome the abject poverty, political corruption and limitations placed upon them by “developed nations.”

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states many things that every person in the world is entitled to . . . near and dear to my heart are the right to an education and access to water.

It is my hope that the work my team and I accomplished while in Kenya and as our work continues in the States, that these seemingly “simple” items, a free education and clean water, often taken for granted in developed nations, will foster the health, happiness and future of Kenya and her people.

Teaching 

Teaching how to brush teeth