I stopped in at Graceway Victory Academy this morning to deliver some supplies and tend to a few other errands. It is SUCH a JOY to see things going so well! There are so many good things happening on this small plot of ground - a school clinic for our newbies in Baby Class was underway which includes mandatory HIV testing (NOT a usual thing in most schools); assessment of the general physical condition of the children; and even urgent care for one who fell down and bumped he

This is Greg with a blog post from Kitale, Kenya. I’m a first-time team member with Africa Connect and live in Wilmington, VT, where I attend Valley Town Church. I’ll be describing things as a first-timer, so my apologies to readers who are already very familiar with AC and Kitale. Getting to Kenya was fairly smooth. Yes, we did completely break the Emirates Airlines computer system with our non-standard check-in procedure, which took them a good 45 minutes of furious keyboar

Endless alleys with trash-filled trenches and open sewers; chickens and ducklings pecking away, eeking out a meager existence; so many dirty children in ragged clothes. Poverty is real, folks. It's real. And heartbreaking. I try to imagine myself calling these streets home, living without all the things we consider necessities in the west. I try to imagine living, eating, sleeping, raising my family in a space the size of many of our closets; sleeping on a dirt floor without