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Mosquito Nets for Kenya

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  Mosquito Nets for Kenya

I decided in the Spring of 2012, my project for the 2 years of my Presidency of West Yorkshire District MWiB would be Mosquito Nets for Kenya.

Miriam and Joshua were delighted that Kathonzweni was to be one of the areas chosen to receive nets. They run Neema, a home for children with AIDS in Eldoret. Kathonzweni is Joshua’s place of birth.

In June 2012, Miriam and Joshua came to stay with Diana and Ian (our contacts with Kenya) and presented me with a mosquito net. The net has been with me to meetings and talks over these last 2 years. It is identical to the ones distributed in Kenya.

The project has now come to a close with the magnificent sum raised of £14,355.50.   On Sunday the 28th September, on a visit to Diana and Ian’s, Joshua spoke at Lindley Methodist Church on the work that he and Miriam do with children with AIDS.   At the conclusion of his talk, I presented back to them the net to take to Kenya when they return home, thereby completing its journey.

I never believed we would achieve this amount. In fact, when writing this article, I received a telephone call from a local Methodist Church, telling me they were sending me £100 for the nets.   

It has been a wonderful experience for me and such a joy to see from photographs, emails from Kenya and talks by Ian and Diana after they have helped deliver nets, just how much these nets have meant to those who have received them.   Miriam told me that lives have definitely been saved and families who have received nets have not contracted malaria.


Gillian, past President of MWiB

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