By Valerie Hess | Project Leader
During this quarter, members of the board of the Virtues Project International Association visited our projects in Kenya. We are happy to report that Virtues Work 4 People (VW4P) school and community initiatives are flourishing with The Virtues Project.
During our three-week visit, several public and private schools, grade schools through high schools, warmly greeted us and honored our spirits with administrative welcomes, guided tours, and children's music, dance, and drama performances. Smiling faces, high-fives, and hugs were shared abundantly by all. Faculty conveyed their appreciation for The Virtues Project. Children showcased their understanding and appreciation through virtue picks, virtue acknowledgments, virtue songs, and drama and dance performances.
Several days were spent in Kakamega County visiting widow and orphan groups, where practicing the Five Strategies of The Virtues Project is an integral part of their social and economic development projects, which help them create sustainable livelihoods. We were greeted enthusiastically by women and children, who danced and sang as they made their way to meet us. Our groups then gathered, and their leaders shared their mixed farming projects, gardens where they grow vegetables, with an emphasis on indigenous crops, along with raising animals, i.e., pigs, goats, cows, chickens, rabbits, turkeys, etc., and a variety of other projects, including: beekeeping, sewing, art, bakery, and charcoal, brick, and soap making.
We also visited their teaching farm, where groups come to learn about virtues, farming: crop cultivation, livestock raising, soil management, pest control, irrigation, harvesting, and soapmaking. We were given a soap-making demonstration.
We participated in meetings with the Board of Directors for VW4P and local Virtues Project Facilitators at the Lutonya Parish Hall, which generously provides VW4P with a meeting room, bathroom, and office. We met with church and community leaders. We also met the local Rotary Club.
Your donations are making a difference to help create cultures of caring where children are flourishing in school, widows and orphans are rising out of poverty, and communities are uniting to support virtues in the community.
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