October 2nd 2023 - District Staff Meeting

**Cost is $35 - Please try to register and pay through Club runner**

Monday October 2nd, 7pm

The Brownstone

Cost:$35.00

Guest Speaker Tim Eustace will talk about his 20 years of traveling to Kenya and his projects there:

.Here's a preview to Tim's presentation: In 2003 our family took a trip to Kenya. We wanted the boys to see the difference between how Americans and Africans lived. Our youngest, Corey, was so affected by the poverty that he insisted we try to help. We explained that there was little we could do. He took his photos from the trip to school.( he was a fifth grader at the time) He managed to raise $1500 going class to class telling his tale. He came home and told us to do something.

So, begins this journey.

We started by feeding lunch to the students at Mpopongi Primary school. $17 a day fed the entire school. This led to an increase in students from 100 to 600. They needed classrooms, so we went every July with a group of volunteers to build, brick by brick, a self sustaining primary school that now boasts teachers. We met twenty years ago as students. Fast forward to present day, we have built two primary schools with over 1200 students, graduated youngsters who have come back to work in the community as teachers, guides, cooks and many other occupations that support growing families.

This year a group of 14 volunteers began construction on the first high school in the area. It will make it possible for many more students to continue their education. There are other benefits as well. With our help, the schools have rescued scores of young girls from early marriage. Our health clinics have improved the general health of the local population.

Over the years each volunteer has paid their way and have raised a minimum of $1000 toward that year's project. We have many who return and many new volunteers.

We need your help. This international service project has survived basically on our volunteers. Join us, get your hands dirty, build with us, change lives and have yours forever changed.

Please donate or travel with us.

A bonus is the safari on the last day, a true bucket list event!