A MESSAGE FROM Karen's NYAKA Fundraising Page
I am speed walking the NYC marathon with the NYAKA team. I hope you will make a donation to this amazing organization to help me reach my personal fund raising goal of $10,000! This Ugandan organization was started in 2001 with a mission to provide free education to children who had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. NYAKA's holistic and its community-minded approach led to the creation of micro-finance loans for the grandmothers raising the children and additional schools as well as clinics. Having been a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, Africa, at the beginning of the AIDS crisis and devoted my entire working life to education, I felt an immediate connection with NYAKA.