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The MaishaProject Quarterly Newsletter | Issue Two

Maisha Friend As I write to you from our spring rainy season here in Kisumu, Kenya, I reflect on the unsung heroes who make Maisha possible. There are moments in life when words feel too small to carry the weight of what the heart feels. This is one of those moments....

Happy World Children’s Day

This World Children's Day, help us molds the minds of tomorrow’s leaders to transform their community and nation.

Mobile Pack Event

t’s that time again — one of our favorite annual partnerships that truly brings hope to life! We’re honored to team up once more with Feed My Starving Children and St. Luke's Methodist Church to make a lasting impact for children and families in Kenya. We’re calling...

Inaugural Legacy of Hope Clay Shoot

Never underestimate the power of what a few can accomplish with one heart and one mission. We want to thank EVERYONE who participated in our Inaugural Legacy of Hope Clay Shoot on Friday. It was such a FUN event. And your generosity went a LONG way… providing OVER...

Share the Love – Educate A Child

About The Maisha ProjectMaisha Project’s mission is to empower people and transform communities to become hopeful, independent, and thriving. The Maisha Project is located in the heart of Oklahoma City, but began in Nyanza Province, Kenya, where the silent epidemic of...

Bringing hope and light

Maisha Project is committed to bringing hope to the hopeless and light to the darkness. Our mission is to transform lives and empower communities by providing lasting solutions to address poverty, hunger, disease and under-education. We extend a heartfelt THANK YOU...

2020 is ending with a BIG surprise!

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope and pray you and your families are having a safe, healthy and peaceful Christmas this year. I have some very exciting news that couldn’t have come at a better time… Maisha has received a really BIG Christmas gift. But it doesn’t fit...

Heroic people of Turkana

The people of #Turkana always inspire and humble us. Their strength and bravery to endure such hardship and suffering every single day is nothing less than heroic! Until our visit, they did not even have facemasks to help safeguard them against the spread of the...

Joy as remote Turkana village gets first fresh water borehole

More than 5,000 residents of Lobolo, a remote village in Turkana Central Sub-county, are breathing a sigh of relief after a US charity sunk a borehole that will provide them with a freshwater source, the first in the area that relies on Lake Turkana’s saline waters....

Water brings Joy

#MaishaMonday — The construction of our water well project in #Turkana is still underway. But as you can see ... the children and community cannot contain their overwhelming joy over this blessing. Here are some shocking stats from Charity Water to help illustrate...

Dream Big Dreams

One of the values we instill in the children of Maisha is to dream big dreams. It’s a lesson we’ve learned ourselves through every step we take at Maisha.   The prospect of gathering all the required documentation, getting all the required permissions, finding...

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Light the Future Success

We’ve long dreamed of having children of Maisha and Mama Grace come from Kenya to attend our annual gala in Oklahoma. Light the Future 2014 saw the fruition of that dream!   On Saturday, October 18th, the Light the Future Choir sang and danced their way into the...

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Christmas in June

In Christmas 2013, Maisha sponsors bought their children solar lights. The delivery of the lights was delayed for quite a while, but the kids finally got their presents in June of 2014.   Beatrice Williamson, Maisha founder, said the kids were overjoyed to...

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Discipling Generations

The vision of The Maisha Project is to “bring hope to the hopeless and light to the darkness.” We believe one of the best ways to achieve this is by giving our kids a spiritual foundation to build their lives upon. Recently, The Maisha Project was able to take a big...

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Light the Future Choir Coming to Oklahoma

The Light the Future Team is travelling from Maisha in Kenya to Oklahoma this fall!   They will be our Maisha ambassadors on October 18th at Light the Future 2014 (http://lightthefuture.ucpfund.org/), singing and dancing themselves straight into your heart. Most...

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Disproportionate Provision

The Gospel Project is a Sunday school curriculum that shows how Jesus is the point of all of Scripture. This year, Bridgeway Church decided we wanted to launch this curriculum for Maisha Academy.   Two months before our trip to Maisha we decided to launch The...

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Meet Our Summer Interns – Part 2

The Maisha project has a total of four interns for the summer of 2014. We are excited for you to meet some of the people who help us out in both the Oklahoma office and in Kenya.   Meet our second intern from our Oklahoma office! Usama Zahi -  Admin/Fundraising...

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LIVE from Kenya — The Final Blog

Wipe your tears; it’s time to go. Saying goodbye to Kenya.   As the long-term team spends their final day at The Maisha Project, we are sad to be leaving the place we have called home for two whole months.  It reminds me of a quote I read by Miriam Adeney, and...

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LIVE From Kenya — Week 7

The summer is coming to a close, and it’s time to say goodbye… As this is almost the final blog, LIVE from Kenya, I’m sad to say my time is running out.  How has the summer flown by so fast? It seems like just yesterday, I arrived at Maisha to a beautiful opening...

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