A MESSAGE FROM Karen
Walking the NYC marathon for Nyaka "Take 2"
Last year I set out to speed walk the NYC marathon for an amazing organization, NYAKA. Due to injury, I could not walk the race, but I did go to NYC where I met Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, the founder of NYAKA, and everything I learned about the organization and how it operates, made me more determined to support it. Just as the children and the women in the Nyaka community, called grandmothers, have to persevere through hardship, I have taken a page from their playbook and am once again in training to race this coming November 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 $11,000!
This Ugandan organization was started in 2001 with a mission to provide free education to orphaned and vulnerable 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.
Thank you for your support that enriches the lives of children and grandmothers in Uganda!
