Reverend Julius and Salome Bagaka, National Directors of Village Care, Kenya will also host many of our teams in 2007.
SUMMER 2007

This summer several teams will be working in Kenya, Sudan and Nigeria. For a schedule of the teams and focus of their work scroll to the bottom of this page.
2007 Plans and Projects

Every child Safe, Healthy, At Home, In School, and Doing Well in the Community
Comprehensive Community Outcomes are the focus of our work. Outcomes are the things we want to achieve and a way to measure how we are doing. Practices are how we get there. This is a measurable program of locally sustained growth based on a partnership of equals. Partners bring a measured level of resources, training, and encouragement.
 
David Gray, Director of Product Development
In January 2006, David Gray brought Community Outcomes and Indicators to the Village Care Leaders in Nyamusi, Kisii, Kenya in multiple sessions. He introduced the Open Space concept to the community of Tungan Magajiya, Nigeria in October 2006 and this year to the community leaders of Nyamusi, Boochi and Irianyi in Western Kenya.
 
David Glenwinkel, Director of Village Development
Two years ago David introduced a program of daily practices in Western Kenya to enhance sanitation, nutrition and health care in the home and promote education. In 2006 Village Care added the Community Outcomes program which promotes awareness and practical solutions for families at risk. This year David continued the process by hosting Open Space community meetings to empower local residents to mobilize their community in order to better care for their sick and impoverished neighbors.
 
Sally Lunetta, Director of Operations
Sally is responsible for our Logistics and Team Development programs, preparing and training teams to participate in Village Care. She started volunteering with Village Care in 2005 and has returned to Africa multiple times as a key team leader. Seen here with Nyamusi Village Committee member Norah Arege and Village Care Kenya National Hostess, Salome Bagaka, Sally has a real love for the women of Africa.
 
Scott Olivett, Director of Orphan Care
Scott’s love for children is now filling Kenyan orphanages where he and his teams have embarked on a quest to create not only a training center to assist orphanage directors in how to best care for orphans, but also for teams to provide some of the physical work needed in the orphanages. One of the main projects will be to reunite orphaned children to their home villages and extended families there.
 
This year we will send teams to many sites in Kenya as we work to spread Village Care across the Nyamira District, population 5.5 million with over 590,000 unassisted Orphans. The Nyamira District has been devastated by HIV Aids.



Last June, the US Development Team and the Nyamusi Village Committee Leaders broke ground on the first Village Care Community Center. The first phase of building should be completed by the end of 2007.

The community center will be a source of education, training and information and will house teams working in this part of the Western District.


Summer 2007 Team Schedules

March: Project Eleos Sudan Team, joined by Village Care National Hosts, will be working with the Dinka in Southern Sudan to bring Outcomes and Practices to this remote and difficult region. Village Care African Outreach Coordinator Pastor Joseph Warware visits the US.

April: Kenya National Host Rev. Julius Bagaka visits the US to participate in local community and Village Care staff meetings and gain a better understanding of US life.

June: Cherry Hills Community Church team visits Nyamusi, Kenya, focusing on their partnership with the village and on establishing advanced communications.

July: US Admininstrative team visits Kenya to meet with Kenyan staff and review Open Space concepts with villages in Western Kenya; Orphan Project team scouts orphanages for partnership potential. Village Care Administrative leaders spend 10 days in Northern Nigeria surveying the numerous villages now engaged in Outcomes, Practices and Open Space concepts. The team is escorted by Nigerian National Host Phillips Elisha.

August: Cherry Hills Community Church team visits Nyamusi, Kenya.

October: US Administrative leaders escort Funding Team through Kenya orphanages and villages, allowing them to see their donations in action. ICCO (Institute for Comprehensive Community Outcomes) is a featured speaker at the Fellowship of Short Term Mission Leaders conference in Atlanta.

November: Please visit our booth at the 2007 Global Summit on AIDS and the Church at Saddleback Church, November 28-30, 2007.

December: Cherry Hills Community Church sends Development Team to Nyamusi, Kenya in continued support of Outcomes, Practices and Open Space concepts.