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My Fave picture of the summer!
one of my favorite pictures of this summer. I visited the site of the school unannounced to see how the building was in the Summer holidays. This group of young boys, dressed in school uniform, were sitting on a mound of dirt, waiting for their school to be built... For someone who squandered his free education this stuff breaks me.
Rodney Cutler - Board Member, friend and Ironman
OzRod, my fellow board member (since 2007) on Shoe4Africa's board today completed an Ironman in 11:31! He will now (begin?) training for the Sea to the Stars run -- the big fund raiser and kick off for the hospital in November later this year. I met Rodney about ten years ago and have always been impressed with his energy, and passion, in life. He'll make an ideal partner for this run. You can read [click hear] about the journey on his Rachel Ray Blog (yup, he cuts her hair).
(picture left Rodney Cutler and I launch the project at his salon earlier this summer).
Yikes, I have been following the Jim Morrison training plan (about the fridge and getting beer) and there is no way I could do an Ironman, or shake a leg for 11-hours! Looks like I better get a shift on!
More news, fellow board members Dr. Dave Feldman & our Chairwoman, Azali Kassum, are also doing the climb -- Azali has even done it before!
Welcoming Stephen P. Cain MBE
Following our board meeting this week we not only have been lucky getting Azali on the team, but we have also been fortunate enough to capture a Major!
A thanks to Steve!
BIO: http://www.worldinstitute.org/wise/people/biospc.html
More news we are putting the pieces together for the Sea to the Stars but it looks like we'll be leaving the Shores of the Indian Ocean on November 21st. We will be meeting a team to make the climb up Kilimanjaro on about Nov. 28th and should you wish to make the climb.... Funny I head when I was in Kenya that Bill Clinton's bucket list has "Run a marathon" and "Climb Kilimanjaro." Well Bill here is your chance -- you can run NYC with us, even run some of the way from Mombasa to Kilimanjaro, then do the climb! Consider this an invite.
Latest School Picture & Opening news
So the school is coming along better than I could of dreamed! Thanks so much to the team, and a few names to pluck out - the project manager "Solo," the head foreman Mr S. Songok, the school committee, and not forgetting my friends Martin Lel and Claudio Berardelli.
The school will open, though be ready sooner, for the new school year which starts in January. I am already looking forward to this great event. On another note IF you are traveling to Kenya and want to take over school supplies, IF you have a laptop to donate.... please let me know. Thanks to Pat Duffy of NYC who is trying to get me a bunch of text books!
REDKEN - A huge thank you!!
Wowwee, a big thanks to REDKEN who join SCHMUEL HARLAP with a $10,000 sponsorship of the SEA to the STARS run in November! A trip tha starts in Mombasa, on the coast, runs through Tsavo (palce of slaughter), past where the man eating lions The Ghost & The Darkness ate all those people 100-years ago, through the game park, into Tanzania, and up to Africa's ceiling - the top of Kilimanjaro!
So far we have raised $56,000 and we are aiming for at least $100,000... every dollar counts, please help us! Thanks!
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Pokwot Poachers
The latest news: Am in Nairobi again. A very successful trip to Kenya and soon over. Not before a delivery of shoes to a new project. Kuki Gallman (I dreamed of Africa story-read the book!) is doing a project rehabilitating a group of 50-pokwots to play football and run, and do acrobatics -- these people were caught poaching animals and instead of dismissing them she is doing amazing things to get them involved in sport. A bit like the program I once did in NYC with Ex-Crims! So anyway I flew from Eldoret to Nairobi with 40-kgs of extra luggage, then drove to Kuki's Nairobi house. With me is Elizabeth who has been helping Kuki for the last eight years. As I say a most amazing lady!
Welcoming Azali
We would like to welcome, in the month of August, our new Chairwoman. Azali Kassum, a lawyer in New York City, will take up the title later this month becoming our third Chairperson. Azali's mother was born in Kenya, and her father was born in Tanzania, thus when I was first introduced to Azali I was thinking how perfect for our November Kenya to Tanzania run! Her grandfather is one of Tanzania's founding father's following their Independence, and her father worked for a quarter of a century for the World Bank.
I am still in Kenya and yesterday had a conference call with an American University and the Moi Referral using my trusty cell phone! Tomorrow a blind triple gold Olympian, an ambassador of the United Nations, from around here is calling in,a nd we are still working on trying to get ties with the World Bank. Also this weekend I am going to see Kuki Gallman, the 'feature' of 'I dreamed of Africa' - I have read the book, and her film starred Kim Bassinger, but I have not seen that. That and more.... ah, meanwhile Kenya is voting on the referendum; thankfully it is (so far) a very peaceful vote!
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Running Central, Meetings, the School, and more!
Being in Kenya is great apart from fund raising; this part does not happen. I was hoping that by August I would be further along with the money side... However as far as the projects I can not complain. I am in Iten, the home of a huge percent of Kenya's top runners, and as many are Shoe4Africa Ambassadors it is good to be here. In fact yesterday John Kelai dropped by for breakfast and told me he will be running for Kenya in October's Commonwealth Games, which reminded me that S4A Ambassadors have won the past couple of CG marathons - I told John the Onus is now on him! I am also working hard on the hospital part and right now sitting typing out an essay, and also getting ready for a Conference call with a NYC hospital and the Moi Referral over here.
Next week I will also go back and check on the progress of the first S4A school that should be complete by September 1st. The question now is when do we open the school and also hold our annual run for Education run?
Internet remains bad - some things never change!
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Kenya - am here!
Oops, sorry for the long delay, I could not find access. Right now I am in Nairobi finding out what the World Bank is doing. Sadly it looks like their funds will not become our funds, but... The weather in Nairobi is nice and cool, great for training especially for the long run we have planned in November. On this trip I am also talking to people about that, and it looks like things are coming together. Should you wish to climb Kili please get in touch as we will have a climb only part.
We also have a few spots for the ING NYC Marathon... if you want to run for us please let us know
Off to Kenya!
Next week I fly back over to Kenya. I make this trip so often I can do it in my sleep, in fact I wish! I hate flying such a long distance as I feel that time is wasted. A whole day. First up when I arrive in Nairobi I crash (arriving late at night) but then in the morning I go running on the Ngong road (where I nearly always bump into an old friend like Tegla), then I have my first meeting at 8:45 a.m. with Salim. from then on the work begins. You see because we have no staff I have to create mini staff's for projects we do -- this way you go through a lot of people, but they can work for free, or very little. After some days in Nairobi it is up country where I am most excited to see the latest progress on the School!
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