September 2011
Dates for ‘Breaking Ground 2011: Beyond the Classroom’ announced as October 17 – November 20.
July 2011
One Home Many Hopes Announces Lullabies for Love Celtic CD
April 2011
One Home Many Hopes Named One of Constant Contact’s 2010 All Stars
Big news! Anthony Mulongo will be in the U.S. in May 2011, visiting Boston, NYC and DC respectively. Stay tuned for information about events in your area!!
September 2010
Breaking News: Meet our Kenyan Founder Anthony Mulongo this October
News just in…To kick off Breaking Ground 2010 (see below) we are bringing our founder and Kenya Director, Anthony Mulongo to meet you in early October. Final dates and venues to come but we’ll be making stops in Boston. New York, Washington DC and perhaps Philadelphia and San Francisco. Exciting stuff whatever way you look at it…
Build a School in Kenya without leaving your Computer this Fall!
Our annual ‘Breaking Ground’ campaign will run from October 18th to November 20th 2010. Want to join hundreds of volunteers from across the U.S. and build a school for 720 of the poorest children in Kenya? If you have a computer and a functioning finger you can do it. Visit www.breakingroundkenya.org for the early news. Breaking Ground 2009 built a home for 720. This year we are inviting you to be even more unreasonable because:
‘Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
OHMH: Be Unreasonable
July/August 2010
School’s Out and Saumu’s on Top!
It’s winter holidays in Kenya and school closed this week after three days of exams. Saumu, our tiny girl with the contagious smile, finished her school term on a high note with some of her best exam results so far. We’re telling you because our volunteer group was there the day she heard the news…and we made a promise. Thank you for rescuing Saumu and giving her the education in which she excels and dearly loves.
Kimberly Rules the Night
Traditionally, even the most diligent students living at Bahari Paraents Academy (where we educate our girls until we build our own school) would be sleeping at 4am. But that was before OHMH firecracker Kimberley entered class seven this year. A born leader, she started waking up two hours early to prepare for that day’s classes. Then a friend joined her. Then another and another. It’s now a regular daily study group. People follow leaders. And Kimberly leads by example.
Ten Births in One Month!
OHMH is hopping with the patter of 40 newborn feet! Philip, the girls’ pet dog, and his beloved dogwife, Coco, had four pups this month. Mother and babies are doing well and are adding additional, welcomed noise to our home. Not be outdone, one of our milking cows (less cuddly but more useful) had two calves. If you’re a farming sort, you’ll know that two from one is rare. Got milk? We do. Oh, and did we mention there are kittens too?
April/May 2010
First Graduate Juliana can Cut Your Hair
You will have heard OHMH’ers talking about college and university for your girls and maybe wondered “What about the girls who don’t want to go to college or university?” Well the answer is…Juliana. Juliana is one of our older girls and has just graduated from her vocational course in hairstyling and we have helped her find a job in the nearby town of Kilifi. You have helped Juliana has grow from a harrowing childhood into a beautiful and charismatic young woman who is earning her own money and building a real life for herself. Her story is of a young girl, who had been taught that she was worth nothing, learn that she is a precious and talented woman. Thank you. Live in London? Hear the OHMH Story on 29th April
Join us on Thursday 29th April from 7.30-9pm at Kumo in Knightsbridge, 11 Beauchamp Place, London SW3 1NQ to hear OHMH founder Thomas Keown tell the OHMH story and learn how you can get involved in the new UK chapter.
Anthony Mulongo Coming to Boston, NYC and DC May 12-15
Final dates to be announced but keep your nights May 12 – 15 free if you live in Boston or New York or Washington, DC. Anthony Mulongo, the vision behind OHMH will be visiting from Kenya and we invite you to come meet him. By abandoning his lucrative journalism career to rescue and educate orphaned girls, Anthony inspired Thomas Keown to found OHMH and his sacrificial words “When we have shoes we all have shoes, when we have no shoes, we have no shoes together” give a picture of the man and the mission. He’ll make your hairs stand up so don’t miss him.
As we prepare to expand our family to 60 children in the new home you helped build, we want to give you the opportunity to continue what you started by teaming up with four friends to support direct care to one girl with a dollar a day. If you and four people who care about you commit to just $30 per month ($7 per week/skip a meal out once per month) that equates to food, clothing, medical and support care for one of your girls. Think about it, ask 4 friends and then visit http://www.onehomemanyhopes.org/help.html to commit your team to a childhood.
Mapenzi turns one
Says Catherine (our counselor ) “Our ‘last born baby’ Mapenzi turned one this month. Those who remember Mapenzi when she arrived at mudzini at one month of age can reckon with us that it has taken the hand of God to be where she is today. She is able to sit down on her own and we expect her to start crawling soon. She is also “speaking” in a foreign language that only her and her age-mates can understand! She responds to her name whenever she is called, and she has such a lovely smile. Your giving not only saves lives it also transforms them in a unique way. Be praying for her as she continues to grow.”
School is out
School is out for the Easter holidays and there is a beehive of activities at home now. In the last couple of days we have been studying, and sowing, and knitting and learning the piano and singing and dancing and all manner of activities with OHMH volunteers. Talent show to come…
January 2010
New Home in Progress
Back to school
The long December holiday is finally over, and it is now time to go back to school. Every child is going to a new class and there is excitement everywhere. This means new books and uniforms but it’s exciting. We have a resolution this year, to do our very best in school. Santa and Pauni initially could not go to school at the beginning of the term because they had chicken pox. Dr. Said gave them quarantining instructions for decease control reasons. They are now well.
Boston OHMH’ers Tara Craft, Dwan Horn and Ashley Winn visited Mudzini at the beginning of January and saw the building of the new home progress and helped with homework and teaching and some labor around the facility. You can see a two minute video of the building progress and meet some of the children by clicking here. And make sure your sound is turned up, the music is top class. Thanks to volunteer Roger Tunsley for the footage and to Neil Edwards for editing.
