Grandmother Circles

Author: Grandmother Circles

  • Progress Report From Kenya

    Dear Friends, It has been long since I wrote to let you know how we are faring. We have had a great year 2016. This is despite crop failure. Our people are very resilient. Finally, we need your assistance in continuing the supply of water tanks for the very old in the community. Water remains…

  • Create to Donate

    “Create to Donate” is an art project circle in the Twin Cities that gathers on the second Tuesday of every month to create and sells art to earn funds that support the needs of  orphaned children in Kenya and their caregivers. With flat agates, feathers, shells, bark, beads and much more, crafters find imaginative ways to express their creative bent. …

  • Greetings from Homalime

    Dear Lois, Greetings from Homalime once again. We have heavy rains now and its good to feel dirty as we toil on our farms. After digging, re-digging and planting and planting again, we still look up to the good Lord to give us plenty of this rain. In Africa, life is hard. Hard enough for…

  • Praying for a tractor

    Mary, Has mentioned that each year the grandmothers and other women plough the fields with oxen and each drought the loose a few.  Each dry season gets harder and harder. Would your company, foundation like to donate to sponsor a tractor?  Over 200 hundred children could benefit from having access to more food.  Grandmothers, widows…

  • News from Homa Bay Kenya

    Dear Joseph and Lois I was off the internet for three weeks and this was uncomfortable because I felt I was either missing something or getting my friends worried for that silence. Thanks for caring. We had an internet problem. We are getting very good rains at the moment and of this goes  for another…

  • Chicken Coop Report

    Hello Grandmother Circles US, ksh= Keyan Schilling Chicken coop project report. Grand Total Cost of Chicken coop       ksh143,896   US $1,713.07 Cash received from Grandmother Circles US Ksh  144,000  US$1714.31 Members of the St. Monica Grandmother Circle are very grateful for the completion of the two chicken houses. One house is at Teresa Aduda’s home.…

  • If only we had a tractor

    Dear Lois, Greetings from Homalime once again. We have heavy rains now and its good to feel dirty as we toil on our farms. After digging, re-digging and planting and planting again, we still look up to the good Lord to give us plenty of this rain. In Africa, life is hard. Hard enough for…

  • A Window of Opportunity

    A special request was made recently for us to assist a grandmother with getting a window put into her stone house that she built with her own hands.  Yes it is true.  Before her husband died he taught her how to carve out rock from the small quarry they had on their property.   She chiseled…

  • News to know from Homalime

    Dear Lois, Greetings from Homalime once again. We have heavy rains now and its good to feel dirty as we toil on our farms. After digging, re-digging and planting and planting again, we still look up to the good Lord to give us plenty of this rain. In Africa, life is hard. Hard enough for…

  • News from Kenya

    Dear Lois, It is good to hear from you after quite a long silence. My family and I are doing very well. The two girls I was supporting in High School did their final exams and passed their exams well enough to go on to middle college. I am happy because they were not very…