“Just recently I was perusing our Wells of Love and Hope sites and I found that we have not been in retirement!

Donations are still being made to our Paypal account!  Loving, altruistic people are still participating in the good we started!  Just today I called Agnes in Kenya and set up a transfer for a goodly sum of money.  Enough to do greater good there.

Agnes told me, she is working very much in the area of educating people about and growing the Moringa plant.  The Moringa is a highly nutritious plant which grows in arid soil.  It has been proven to have a powerful impact on increased immunity especially in the cases of people with AIDS/HIV.  This is very required in an area where there is a 50-80% AIDS/HIV rate.   Prevention through better nutrition is imperative!

Agnes is now running a government program re: Moringa and it’s benefits.  I am adding a link to You Tube here so you can see for yourself”.  Irene Kabot                                                                   www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLec_hgJkr0‎

Be a part of the ongoing good! Donate to Wells of Love and Hope to continue the work our children have started.

Children Helping Children

If you want to know where the LOVE is, it is here at Ward School. The loving children, parents and grandparents not only came out to support their Wells of Love and Hope Peace Project but added an additional $135 in cash contributions.
And the FUN has just begun. Ward’s Student Council will be hosting another Cosi fund raiser in May. And a final one in June. The June extravaganza will include a performance of our Wells of Love and Hope Song, written by Mrs. De Groat, our music teacher at Ward School and sung by past and present members of the Student Council. It is a wonderful message sung through the hearts of our very own Ward Students.

IT”S ALL GOOD!!! It’s a Win-Win for you and for the suffering people of the Kibwezi region of Kenya.
Please join us!

Special Thanks to Mr. John Fogliano and the past and present members of the Ward Student Council

Turn Your
Trash to Treasure
DONATE YOUR EARNINGS TO
Wells of Love and Hope

It is good for everyone
You can release some unwanted items and the people in Kenya can benefit from your donation
It’s even good for the environment!

Talk to your friends and neighbors and work together
Or
Hold a sale of your own before the end of June

• Tell or email Ms. IKabot@nred.org your name, the date, time and place of your tag sale and the Ward School Student Council will spread the word at school.
• Go to the www.wellsofloveandhope.org site to see all the good Ward School is doing for our brothers and sisters in Kenya
• Donate your Tag Sale money and additional donations
Directly Online
• Or send/bring a check to Ward School to Ms. Kabot

Please make all checks out to:
WELLS OF LOVE AND HOPE

Sell cold drinks and healthy snacks to keep your
customers happy.
Then add the snack sale money to your already generous donation!

Asante sana! Thank you, very much!

Buy dinner for tonight or lunch for tomorrow, on

Monday, April 26th between 4 and 7 pm

Cosi on Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle, will donate 10% of all proceeds to

Ward School Project Peace: Wells of Love and Hope
Sponsored by the Student Council of Ward Elementary School

Wells Project achievements:

• Our first functioning well w/pump is the sole water supply servicing the approx. 400 students, teachers and local villagers at the Utini Primary School in the Kibwezi region of Kenya, Africa.
• Our 2nd well is being built at our tree nursery, where we have supplied 400 Moringa trees to the Kenyan Youth group for care. The Kenyan Youth Group consists of 24 children, ages 4-14, who are taught to care for the Moringa trees until the trees are mature. As a reward for their excellent care, the students are rewarded with school supplies.
• Moringa is a highly nutritious plant whose leaves can raise the immunity in people with poor nutrition. The Moringa powder is being given as a food supplement to 40 People Living With HIV Aids (PLWHA) for the next year. There have already been some very promising results.

One hand dug well $4,000
One Moringa tree $20
Giving Hope to others…priceless

The students, parents, teachers and staff at Ward School have been raising awareness and funds for the people in this drought affected region of Kenya.

WE ARE THEIR HOPE YOU ARE THEIR HOPE

For additional donations make your check out to Wells of Love and Hope
William B. Ward Elementary School
c/o Irene Kabot
311 Broadfield Rd.
New Rochelle, NY 10804

Or donate on line at www.wellsofloveandhope.org

Irene Kabot will be there to discuss project developments in Kenya and meet the many supporters of Ward School Project Peace Wells of Love and Hope

In the picture, below, are from left to right:
Pat Lockhart of the Boimah Cooper Fund assisting children in Liberia, www.boimah.com. In front is Pat’s daughter, a native of Liberia, Latta. Please read this heart warming story and see the work Pat does.
Irene Kabot of Wells of Love and Hope, www.wellsofloveandhope.org working in coordination with Honorable Agnes Ndetei(not in photo), building wells and planting trees in the drought effect regions of Kibwezi, Kenya
Dena Florczyk, founder of the Nigerian School Project. At www.nigerianschoolproject.org you can see the wonderful work Dena has done building 5 schools and more.

All these people are committed to helping the people in Africa, especially the orphaned children. Go to any of these non-for-profit sites and contribute to help the earth and her children who suffer in Liberia, Tanzania, Nigeria or Kenya. Clothing, other supplies and monetary donation may be accepted, please visit each site for more specific information.

If you area project founder or member and would like to share your story and get support, become a member of the African Peace Coalition by emailing Irene@wellsofloveandhope.org .
Feel free to share all of this information.

Lberia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania represented

The beautiful Pelham/Split Rock Golf Club, located at 870 Shore Road, Bronx, NY was alive in festive seasonal colors and decorations. The hearts of everyone present were wide open to enjoy the music, food and dancing, led by our own “Rockin'” Mike Sgobbo. Shoes were plied high so the participant could get all they could by freeing their little feet.
Good conversation and hope abound.
Yet, the most impressive occurance was, by far, the undivided attention the children gave to the video of the Ward Student Council singing Mrs. De Groats “Kenyan Song” …with Wells of Love and Hope dig the wells for Life… and footage of our brothers and sisters and their lifestyle in their school and villages in the Kibwezi region of Kenya.

It was all very inspirational and given a special boost of intent when our New Rochelle Superintendent of Schools, Richard Organisciak christened this celebration as the”First Annual Family Banquet”.

Donations from this dinner and the fund raising of the High School Students of Our Lady of Good Counsel in White Plains, NY has brought us the ability to build a third well!

click on the DONATION button to participate in the good being done here!

The 2nd well will require a special water pump which costs about $500. It will be used to irrigate over 10 acres of farm land where our trees are planted. 400 trees cannot be watered by hand. Agnes expects completion of this well by March 2010.

I am so exited!!! I want to show you all the good that you have done in your generosity, so my daughter Laurie (age 22) and I will be going back to visit Agnes this summer. Any support you can give us will be most greatly appreciated and perfectly utilized. Each ticket cost $1,200 right now. My ticket cost $1,800 back in 2008 but I was blessed with a $1,000 contribution form a very generous Ward parent and others.
When you donate for the trip please state it so I can use the money as intended. I do not take money earmarked for wells or trees for my trip to Kenya.
The interface with the people and the video of our projects are very important to keep the project alive.

WE ARE THEIR HOPE! YOU ARE THEIR HOPE!
Asante Sana! Thank you very much!

Thursday, Dec 17th 4-7pm
Cocktail Hour and Full Buffet Dinner
music, dancing, sing along
$42 per person
click on the DONATION button to pay online

All Children must be accompanied by an Adult

BUCKETS OF LOVE AND HOPE are being brought up every day by the students, teachers and local villagers around the Utini primary School. The first water well of William B. Ward Elementary School is real!

Tuesday, March 31 was Agnes Ndetei’s birthday, and when I called her that morning, to convey my very best wishes, she gave me the most wonderful gift. “The well is bringing up 50 gallons of water a day”, she said. “What?” I said, thinking I had a bad connection. “The well… at Utini… we hit water”, she said. I cried. (duh)

I couldn’t speak but I could think (barely) and my brain said, IT”S REAL!!! IT”S REALLY REAL”!
We did it. We brought them water. OMG!

It’s only 1 well and they need so much more but it is making a real difference in their lives. Thank you God!
And thank you, all the loving people who have made this REAL!

The well needs to be dug deeper than it’s present 22ft. to become a sustainable water supply. Then it will be tested for health standards. There are no contaminants from industry and it is so much cleaner that the stagnant supply they are using now but it will be tested and a filter will be added if necessary. Then capped to keep out animals and debris. Then the pump will be added for more efficient drawing.

I expect it will be a free flowing water supply by the time I see it in August. Don’t worry I’ll show you the pics when I get back.
Asante sana! Thank you very much!

So? You say. No big deal you say. Until you live without it.
Wash you hands in ice cold water; the rush you feel is one of deep resentment because you have been made uncomfortable by the inconsiderate lack of warm water. And you deserve what you have always had, warm water!
Now go the sink and get no water, not cold, not hot, not even murky. NADA, nothing, zilch. What level of resentment will you be dealing with then? And you know what?  There’s no water tomorrow either. Or the day after that. Or the day after that.
Don’t want to go there do you?
Me, either.

Well I don’t have that problem, you say.  No thank God, you do not. But others do, others just as worthy of a water supply as you are, as we are, as I am. It’s water! For Goodness’s sake. Why don’t we all have water!

We have the opportunity to give that gift, that right of water to others; easily, to the whole world. If we, as a nation of individuals, pooled our resources for just one day we could bring water equity to the planet.

This has been the goal of the United Nations since 2005 when then clean water initiative was undertaken. Clean water everywhere by 2015.

We are far behind, but we don’t need to be.
Give the gift of water today! Go to the UN World Water Day site or donate here at Wells of Love and Hope.
If you can’t pour someone a glass of water then send them a buck so they can pour their own. Send more if you are so guided, but do something. It’s water for Goodness’s sake!

Responsibility is the ability to respond.
Thank you,
Irene