Newsletters Archived!

by Ed Colina on July 29, 2010

We are now able to provide our past newsletters archived on this page.

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Please Read and Consider

by Ed Colina on June 21, 2010



Benson Lotiang'a

Benson Lotiang'a

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Life and Death Happens

June 21, 2010

On Saturday, Fred called in the afternoon to tell me that another infant had died here. This makes the third child in two months to die from this manyatta. This child was 8 months, and was the nephew of a friend (a watchman here) living in a manyatta, next to where I stay. One day [...]

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Would YOU like to donate a cow?

June 17, 2010

If you would like to donate a cow to help raise money for our projects in Africa and support my travel to and from the States, send your donations to COWS: The Ed Colina Foundation, P.O. Box 199 Burlington, KY 41005.  The cows will be watched by the Maasai herdsmen while I am in the [...]

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Last Trip to Kiserian for a While

June 4, 2010

Today we made the last trip to Kiserian to buy beads for the women to use when they make our belts and necklaces. Since it rained last night, Fred and I trudged for miles in the mud to get to a matatu to take us to Nairobi first.   It takes a while to get [...]

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Life / Death

June 3, 2010

And so I call my 89 year-old mother in the states Wednesday. She tells me, “You know Eddie, you don’t need to come home so often. These flights are getting more expensive.  This was just a bad stretch (She was rushed to the hospital as I was arriving in Kenya.) and I am better now.” [...]

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I just have to smile.

May 30, 2010

As I have written somewhere before, prayer comes more easily for me in Kenya. I am not quite sure why and maybe I even doubt if it is prayer at all, but feelings of duty or righteousness or ego. Maybe prayer comes more easily in Africa with less stimulation around? I don’t know. I do [...]

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Four Months – Already

May 29, 2010

I am down to only 24 days left for in trip to Kenya. There are a million loose ends to tie up, funds to be withdrawn and to be assigned, people to meet with and get organized to continue things while I am gone. As much as I am happy to come home and visit, [...]

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Meeting Day

May 26, 2010

Today was meeting day with Daniel, the Maasai Chairperson of the Education Committee for our preschool. The meetings are always lively but agonizingly slow. Things must be stated many times, in many different ways, in order to be understood. At this meeting, we tried to explain the reasons why the Foundation should not pay school [...]

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The Weekend

May 24, 2010

It was a great weekend. Fred and Mwololo are both out of town and Benson came to visit for some days. On Sunday we walked up the hill behind where I stay and looked for zebra. We found some gazelles and many cows going off to pastures. The sun was behind clouds most of the [...]

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