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Sumner Rotary Donates to Team Agape for Kenyan Lifeline

The Rotary Club of Sumner donated $5,000 to partner with Team Agape and Creator Lutheran Church youth to drill a shallow well in Kenya through New Life Mission.

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Sumner, August 10, 2011:  Rotary Club of Sumner donated $5,000 to partner with Team Agape and youth to drill a shallow well in Kenya through New Life Mission.

Team Agape started in 2009 with eight teachers and students from Sumner High School with a desire to serve and help children in Africa.  The group partnered with Pastor Cliff from New Life Mission in Kenya.  The mission runs an orphanage, schools, and many other social welfare projects in Kenya.

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Sarah Josten from team Agape approached the Sumner Rotary Club for support of a project to build a shallow well through New Life Mission. Students from Sumner High School along with youth from Creator Lutheran Church had raised $1,500 to apply towards drilling the well. The cost of a well is approximately $6,500. Sumner Rotary has donated the remaining $5000 needed to complete the project.

Although the site for the well has not been chosen, the site will be along the Mara River. The location they are looking at would help supply the small kindergarten they just built out in the Mashuru region of Kenya (located in the Masai Mara). The kindergarten is a “feeding school” which means children of the age of 4-5 walk anywhere from three to five miles to the school where they learn how to read and write, get a free lunch (sometimes one of the only meals they get that day) and then walk back home that evening.

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The water projects are in a semi-arid area that relies mostly on rainwater. Much of the community uses surface water which can be highly contaminated and results in water borne diseases. Donated funds have now allowed New Life Mission to drill 20 wells. After each well is complete, there is a ceremony to dedicate the well to the community. A sign is prepared to show who donated the well.  Information on the progress of the well will be provided as the project proceeds.

The Rotary Club of Sumner is proud to partner with Team Agape and their well project.  For more information or to make a donate visit www.teamagapenewlifemission.com or email teamagape.newlifemession@gmail.com.

Rotary Club of Sumner was founded in 1926. Meetings are held every Tuesday for lunch at in Sumner.

Rotary Club of Sumner is a part of Rotary International with 1.2 million members worldwide. The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.


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