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Makindu trip fortifies pledge to help children.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Makindu trip fortifies pledge to help children.(Children)(Two local board members in the Makindu Children's Program see firsthand the fruits of their fundraising efforts)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Jill Aho The Register-Guard

Mutuwa lives with his guardian, Ngwenze, in a small earthen-brick structure supported by sticks and sheltered by a corrugated tin roof. It has no electricity and no running water.

The orphan is one of more than 400 Kenyan children who are fed, taught and given emotional support by the Makindu Children's Program headquartered in Eugene. Many of the orphans have lost their parents to the raging HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The Register-Guard first wrote of the Makindu Children's Program in 1998, when founder Winnie Barron was still figuring out how she would serve the children of Makindu, Kenya, who had captured her heart.

The program has board members from many areas of the United States and is administered by a panel of Kenyans, who manage the day-to-day operations of the center.

Two local board members, Lisa Adam and Jan Johnson,...

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