On Thursday, June 15, our Rotary luncheon will be with the middle school Leaders in the Great Room of the Bultman Student Center at Hope College (a new building named, of course, for one of our own long-time members). The Bultman Center is located in the center of campus.
Rotarians have signed up for various opportunities to interact with the Leaders during the conference. Ed Swart will be sending notices early next week to those who have signed up to help. We are thankful that through the involvement of so many Rotarians we are able to make a difference in the lives of our kiddos. We still need some more volunteers to be interviewed by teams and introduced to the larger group Wednesday after lunch and to help checkout and mix with Leaders and parents before and after graduation Thursday afternoon.
Margaret Njuguna is from Kenya. She attended Calvin University and worked for the US based World Renew for many years. Her expertise is microfinance and she worked for World Renew in Africa. While she was travelling through towns, she noticed that the beggars were mostly disabled persons. She didn't know much about disability care then.
Margaret was on the planning team for World Renew and every year she asked about starting a program for disabled persons. She was eventually told that no donor would fund a foreign disability care program because any results would be very long term. Yet Margaret still felt called to help children whose families had abandoned them. So, she gave World Renew notice that she would be quitting in 3 years and started planning.
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