To donate:
Please send a check to:
Okela School Charities
Carol Hunt, Co-President
1046 Diamond Brook Drive
Richmond, KY 40475
One hundred percent of your donations go directly to the school and the Women's Group in Okela village. There are no administrative costs in our charity, and everyone involved in our work is a volunteer. The pictures and letters we receive from Okela reveal a new spirit of optimism and hope. A committee there carefully directs the work of carrying out each project. The beauty of our charity is that you will see the results of your generosity as we will post pictures of the new classroom and water collection system, as well as letters from the children. And you will see the faces of the women and children who so desperately need our help. Your donations mean more than you can imagine to the people of Okela, and if you decide to donate, we thank you sincerely, on behalf of the women and children in the village.
A letter to those who might join us in our cause
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to describe our charity on behalf of the Okela Village in Kenya. The village of Okela is located in East Uyoma Location, Bondo District in Western Kenya about 100 kilometers from Kisumu City. The primary school was built in 1970 and the secondary school in 1996.
Thanks to past and ongoing donations to the Okela School Charities, Inc., we are pleased to report that $5000 has been sent to Okela during the past two years for the building of a new classroom. The classroom has been completed, and another $1000 was delivered in the summer of 2008 for desks and materials. Ten boxes of textbooks and four boxes of science equipment have also been sent. A generator ($1000) was recently purchased so that science equipment requiring electricity can be used. There is no electricity in the Okela Village
Our focus this year was providing the village with a clean water collection system. The female students have to walk 10 kilometers to get water for the school; therefore, they are not able to attend school on a regular basis. This project will benefit these little girls, especially, and the hours it would take for them to fetch water will now be spent in the classroom.
With continued visits to Okela, teachers bring back photographs of smiling children holding books and standing in front of their new classroom. It is an inspiring vision of promise to behold and a full-circle act of love and cooperation.
We would appreciate any help you can provide for the people of the Okela Village.
Sincerely,
Melissa Adkins; Co-President
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