Church Hill Jr. High Funds a Cistern!

Check for cistern project

In January, Sherrie and Brayden Christensen spoke at Church Hill Jr. High School in Salt Lake about their experiences in Kenya.  The student body officers kicked off a fundraiser, which turned out to be a very quick and and successful fundraiser, providing nearly $2,500 to Koins to build a cistern in Kenya.
Story here.

What a great bunch of kids!  With this donation, we will be able to provide a cistern that will provide drinking water to students while they are at school, and water that is used to boil corn for lunch.  Without a cistern, children are required to bring a jug of water they collect along the way to school, typically from an open pond or river.  The cistern will collect rainwater from the roof and store it, providing a much cleaner and more reliable source of water.

The cistern building will begin immediately, and the expedition group headed to Kenya this month will contribute to the work being done.  Sometime in April there will be a brand new water cistern in Kenya, thanks to the efforts of the students at Church Hill Jr. High.

Asante Sana!

Ingrid

New Eagle Scout and a School Fundraiser

Brayden Christenson, who went to Kenya in August to build desks for the Austin Frampton School in Dzivani, had his Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Sunday, January 9.  Brayden is now officially an Eagle Scout.  We are so proud of Brayden for his diligent efforts, and grateful that he chose to work with Koins for Kenya to attain this rank.

Last Tuesday, Brayden and his mom, Sherrie, went to Church Hill Jr. High in Salt Lake City, where they spoke to the 9th grade honors English class about Kenya and the work Koins is doing there. The students were very excited and the student body officers were going to kick off a school wide fundraiser starting today. The day after they spoke, Sherrie's friend sent a picture of the jar of coins her honors students had collected in one day.

Way to go Church Hill!  It is through such donations that the Wind Ridge Elementary School in Farmington has funded the building of 3 classrooms, desks, uniforms and a cistern at the Wind Ridge School in Chikomani, Kenya over the past several years.

In fact, it was the 6th grade class of 2003 at Wind Ridge that coined the phrase "Koins for Kenya" that ultimately became the official name of our foundation.  And with the coins of many donors over the years, we have built classrooms, cisterns, desks, libraries, science centers, and many other projects in our service area of Kenya.


I am looking forward to tracking the progress of Church Hill's fundraiser.  They might help us build that school at Gona!


Asante Sana