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Please explore. Look for frequent news updates here on the home page. We also will be introducing you to people who are important to us in "A Day in the Life..." The first life we want to introduce you to will be Mark Burns. But I get ahead of myself. First:

SPOKENYA RUN!

The first annual SpoKenya Run totaled nearly $13,000 for Spring of Hope International.

A TEAM HEADS TO KENYA IN OCTOBER

David Opap heads back to Kenya in October with a team of thirteen. While these are called "mission trips", they are more appropriately "vision trips".

THE MAY TEAM WOUND CLINIC

The team that went to Adiedo in May held a wound clinic in the village. With help from a nearby nursing school they saw more than 300 patients.

David Opap

After living in comfort in America, while completing my education, a visit back to Adiedo Village in the year 2000 shocked me. My eyes were opened to an Adiedo I never knew existed, even though I grew up there. People were dying of simple treatable diseases. HIV/AIDS had infected so many people. There was no basic health care, medication, or even information about disease. Orphans and widows abounded as my village continued to exist without clean water. I lost five siblings to water borne illnesses as I grew up, but now, deepening my dismay, I saw it was simple water related disease that my own mother died from. Growing up, I never understood Adiedo was in such great need. I thought these conditions were experienced by everyone in the world. I left my village in 2000 with a choice: go back to America the land of comfort and keep silent or go back to America and find a way to repair Adiedo.

A Day in the Life of Mark Burns...

Mark Burns recently raised money for SOHI by running the 7 k SpoKenya race by wearing 16 sweatshirts, 6 t-shirts and 3 headbands (visible on his arm; the bunched up sweatshirt hoods behind his head kept pushing them off). Who comes up with this? Here's a slice of Mark's life...... Read More >