HISTORY
In 2000, Zane Wilemon, the founder of CTC traveled to teach at a local school in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. While there he formed a friendship with the director of an orphanage, Jeremiah Kuria, in the town of Maai Mahiu. After several years of visiting the people of Maai Mahiu, listening to the community's concerns, and slowly recognizing the needs of the people, CTC International was born.
Returning to the U.S. in 2001, Zane began raising awareness of the people's needs in Kenya. After a failed attempt to ship boxes of clothes, toys, and books due to Kenyan corruption, it became apparent that the only way to positively impact the community was to live in Kenya.
In 2002, a close friend of the founder expressed interest in going to Kenya. Zane quickly placed a call to Jeremiah in Maai Mahiu to see what could be done the following summer. The response was to build a classroom housing donated computers and sewing machines for the community of Maai Mahiu. That event sparked CTC International's first team to Kenya.
In the Summer of 2003, what started as a journey of three soon became a team of nine, and has now evolved into multiple teams traveling to Kenya. CTC hopes that through relationships formed, awareness will be raised, needs will be met, and radical change will occur.
About me: VISION
CTC is a hands on, grassroots organization built on relationships. Our desire is not to help the poor, the sick, and the needy. Our desire is to live with the poor, the sick, and the needy.
We believe that human love and concern for one another, when channeled in a focused effort, can transform pain into beauty, disease into healing, and loneliness into belonging by challenging the world to see that lasting changes begin and end in the connections and efforts made by the people, for the people.
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"Together we CAN make a difference"-Denise Vasquez
