In 2007 the number one priority for the community of Kwambekenya was a medical clinic. The nearest hospital is ten kilometers (a little over 6 miles) away, and public transportation is limited, unreliable and unsafe. The community told us stories of how children were being born on the side of the road because the mothers didn’t make
Read more →Here is James’ “Part 2” to Why We Fight. He wrote this on his recent trip to Kenya. See Why We Fight (Part 1) here. 7. People Need Water! I spent some time hanging out at the water tank and interacting with people as they filled their water
Read more →So my personal chewy nugget is education. (If you don’t know what a chewy nugget is, click on it and read my prior post.) I think that many of our social and economic ills could be solved with proper quality education. It’s true here at home… and it’s true in Kenya. It’s the need in our
Read more →Not sure where I heard the phrase “chewy nugget” first, but I’ll give credit to my good friend Eric Helman. Eric and I worked together for a brief time before we both moved on to our current gigs. Eric would talk about people’s “chewy nugget” – that one issue
Read more →Many of you may remember the HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers.” It was a terrific ten-part World War II mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks that followed the 101st Airborne’s “Easy Company” from D-Day to the end of the war. The 9th episode is called “Why We Fight”
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