Team Tumaini 2008

Carol Brunet Trudeau, Cathy McCallum, Don McCallum,

Sandy Foster and Julie Desgrosellier

Kolongola Village

Team Tumaini pursued several new initiatives for 2008.  One project involved

a small village call Kolongola.  In this village were 15 widows and

grandmothers who were raising over 70 children.

The Team meets with the village Elders

The Team has brought food and blankets to support these women

Don and Julie hand out blankets

The children wait to see what is going to happen

Now they know - they got school uniforms!!

This mom appreciated the food and blankets but was thrilled that her

children could now go to school

This young girl will now be able to go to school for the first time

In many parts of Kenya, children like these along the road cannot go to school

because their parents can't afford the $20 for a uniform or shoes

Sandy giving out treats to children who can't go to school because they have no uniform

Food Distribution Program

Team Tumaini has undertaken an extensive food program in an effort to ease the

situation in Kenya which is experiencing drought conditions.  As a consequence food supplies are low and food prices are high, well beyond the financial means of many.

Food sorted and stacked for distribution in four different areas.

Overall, 33,000 pounds of food and 600 blankets were distributed.

Food and blankets ready for distribution in the Shimo slums in Kitale

Women line up for food . . . .

. . . . and blankets in Malie Saba

Supporting "Transformed International"

Team Tumaini provides financial support for several projects run by Daniel Lipperelli's non-governmental organization "Transformed International". 

Sandy Foster with Daniel Lipperelli presenting medical supplies donated

by North Bay doctors.

Children from a Transformed International orphanage performing for

Team Tumaini in appreciation for the gifts they brought

Neema Girls Home - a home for street girls.

Some Team members with the girls from Neema House who wear clothes from

Northern Reflections.  The clothes were donated by customers of the North Bay store.

Neema girls learn how to sew on machines purchased with money raised in Ontario

A school in the Soweto slums where 150 children are fed a meal 5 days a week,

52 weeks of the year.  For the majority of them it is the only meal they get each day.

Other Program Involvement

Team Tumaini continues to participate in other programs initiated from earlier

trips to Kenya. Following are just a few.

Team Tumaini provides assistance to Sister Luciana and the children

of St. Mary's school in Kibera, Nairobi

Children at St. Mary's school received books from Sandy Foster made by

Grade 11 and 12 students at F.J. McElligott Secondary School in Mattawa, Ontario

High School orphans in Kibera make cards that Sandy sells in Canada to

help provide funds to keep them in school

Each orphan has a specific job to do when making the cards

Kids at the Kaibeiyo orphanage outside Eldoret, Kitale with the new

mattresses that the Team purchase for them

Children at Kaibeiyo school received new pencils.  For many of them it was

the first new pencil they had ever owned.

Sandy has had a long relationship with the Masaii women.  They do beadwork which Sandy sells in Canada giving them extra money with which to feed their families

Sometimes Team members encounter opportunities to help individuals who

are not associated with any organized program.  Here, Cathy McCallum

calls on her expertise to show a mom how to exercise the arms and

legs of a developmentally and physically challenged child

The Team has many interests.  Here they visit Webyue, a Boarding School for the deaf

This sewing machine was purchased to help a woman with her micro business

All in all, a very successful trip in 2008