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Ngochoni
Petals of Africa School
pre-K to 6th
grade — Ngochoni,
Kenya
|  SPECIAL
EVENTS:
JULIA
WADE IN “A CANVAS OF MANY COLORS” BENEFIT CONCERTS
Saturday,
June 9, 2007 at 7:30 PM at Twenty-Eighth Church
of Christ, Scientist, 1018 Hilgard Avenue, Westwood Village,
CA 90024
Sunday,
June 10, 2007 at 3 PM at Orange County High School
of the Arts, Symphony Hall, 1010 N. Main St., Santa Ana
CA 92701. See ticket info below.
“Jambo!
The staff, teachers, parents and students of Ngochoni Petals
of Africa School in Kenya send greetings and great thanks
to Julia Wade and guest artists for their love and outreach
in the benefit concert.”
— Lillian Akinyi Otieno Baraza, Headmistress |
photos
courtesy of Angela Sevin
Founded
in 1999 in a remote part of Kenya, the Nogochoni Petals of Africa
School is a community learning center that is an integral part
of the village of Ngochoni and the surrounding communities. Ngochoni
is a border village and lies between two tribes, Luo and Kuria,
known historically for clashes. Today, peace and cooperation exist
between the tribes when in the 1980s there were burnings of homes.
The simple idea of educational outreach is the powerful leaven
that has dissolved tribal difficulties. The school has brought
two tribes together through the common need for education. Villagers
are small-scale farmers and cannot afford to support the school
monetarily, but they have given time, effort, and resources to
help build new classrooms, cook meals, as the school grows each
year.  The
Petals School serves more than 140 young people through sixth
grade. The teachers and staff members are Christian Scientists.
Sixty to seventy students and parents attend church services and
the Christian Science Sunday School.
“The
school is bringing more harmony to the village because the people
are bringing peace and harmony and love to each other,”
says Jared Ambugo, a founding member and board member who gave
his family land for the school. “We have some teachers from
Kuria, some teachers from Luo, and the students and teachers are
working and learning together in peace.”
 Thanks
to the kindness of many friends, generous donors have provided
a new well, scholarships, teacher salaries, classroom furnishings,
new classrooms, student housing and more. The purpose of the 2007
annual campaign is for solar panels, batteries and inverters to
run the water system and provide school and dorm lighting.
THANK
YOU FOR ATTENDING AND/OR MAKING A GIFT TO THE BENEFIT CONCERTS
BENEFIT
CONCERTS: “JULIA WADE IN A CANVAS OF COLORS”
with guest artist Bobby Stanton, featuring Jillian Armsbury- vocals,
Margaret Dorn – vocals & keyboards, Bobby Douglas –
keyboards & vocals, Keith Fluitt – vocals.
SATURDAY,
JUNE 9, at 7:30 PM
Location: Twenty-Eighth
Church of Christ, Scientist, 1018 Hilgard Avenue, Westwood Village,
CA 90024
Suggested
donation $25 adults in advance / $30 day of the concert, Youth
$20 (20 and under). Purchase Tickets at www.juliawadeconcert.com
or call 1-818-848-7622
SUNDAY,
JUNE 10, at 3 PM
Location: Orange County High School of the Arts, Symphony Hall,
1010 N. Main St., Santa Ana, CA 92701
Suggested
donation $25 adults in advance / $30 day of the concert, Youth
$20 (20 and under). Purchase Tickets at www.juliawadeconcert.com
or call 1-818-848-7622
By
mail, send contributions earmarked for “benefit concert”
payable to: SJCCSS – San Juan Capistrano Christian Science
Society, 31897 Del Opisbo, Suite 120, San Jan Capistrano CA
92675
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CONTACTS:
100% of your
gift is sent to Africa for educational purposes. If you wish to
contribute, please write checks to "AFRICAN RAFIKI FUND"
("gift" in Swahili) and mail to:
Kenya Project
231 Reach Road
Sedgwick ME 04676
1-800-210-7468
If you wish to contribute directly to a learning projects in Africa,
contact:
KENYA
Jared Ogega, Treasurer, Ngochoni Petals of Africa School
Email: ogegaj@yahoo.com
Telephone (from US): 011-254-20-271-0632
Lillian Akinyi Otieno, Baraza, Headmistress
Email: petalsschool@yahoo.co.uk
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Mayal Tshiabaila, Director
Ecoles du Coeur, Kinshasa
Email: Ecolesduecoeur@yahoo.fr
GHANA
Gladys Darkwa, Director
Lovia Early Childhood Development Center
Email: loviasch@yahoo.com
Tel: 011-233-21-31-6581
US
Margie Hamlin, Administrator, Kenya Project
Email: hamlinMH@aol.com
Debra Piot,
Chair, Kenya Project
Email: debrapiot@yahoo.com
Paul Garman
Email: paul@musical.org
Tel: 949-494-4084
Cynthia Clague,
CS
Email: cclague@comcast.net
Tel: 541-344-0430
Carol Freund,
Ph.D.
Email: drcarol2u@aol.com
Tel: 314-306-0737
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