In June, Matt Komatsu supported Mocha Club at the Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, MN. As a marathon runner, averaging a race a month, Matt decided that as he raced, he would raise money for our Clean Water project. Matt’s wife Jenn went on a Mocha Club trip and when she came home and told him… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: August 2010
Kenya has adopted a new constitution, more than three weeks after it was overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum. Tens of thousands of people watched as President Mwai Kibaki signed the document into law at a large ceremony in the capital, Nairobi…continue reading…
By ALAN COWELL Published: August 27, 2010 President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan arrived in Kenya on Friday to participate in a ceremony inaugurating the country’s newly minted constitution, flouting international demands for his arrest on genocide charges. Mr. Bashir faces two arrest warrants: one issued in July by the International Criminal Court in The… Read more »
Here’s an update from our Mocha Club project, Living Hope Community Center, which provides support to those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa. Living Hope has launched its Worker Readiness School! In their effort to help those living with HIV/AIDS find jobs, they researched what South African employers are looking… Read more »
Here’s an update from Persecution Project Foundation (PPF), our partners on the ground in Jach [Jaac], Sudan, where we are helping build clean water wells. PPF’s goal is to build 100 wells in the Jach area by the end of 2010. A little background… Less than a year after a UN official announced the official… Read more »