CARD PARTNER PROGRAM A VISA CARD THAT GIVES
Expanding Opportunities invites you to our Card Partner program.
* Apply for a VISA card in one of our beautiful designs, * Each time you use your card a donation is given to Expanding Opportunities.
Thank you
Visit our website at www.exop.org for details.
Music
Movies
Television
Books
Heroes
Expanding Opportunities's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Expanding Opportunities YEAH!! Yesterday after a long and confusing day - we met with the land board - a wonderful group of people who granted us the TITLE DEED. Posted at 7:26 AM Nov 6 from Ping.fm view more
About me: ..
Expanding Opportunities' executive director, Beverly Gilbert Stone, grew up in a small, safe Massachusetts suburb. Even in elementary school, Beverly dreamed of leaving her quintessential American life to be a missionary doctor in Africa. Although she entered college as a pre-med student, still expecting to fulfill her dream, Beverly's plans changed and she became a teacher. Her eventual geographical destination remained, however, and in 1996, Beverly, accompanied by her last born eleven-year-old son, joined a project called Teachers for Africa, and spent a year teaching at Tengecha High School in Kericho, Kenya.
Beverly's students were, like most Kenyans, impoverished. They lacked even simple school supplies like erasers and pencil sharpeners. She wrote about her impressions during her first year in Kenya in a short story, "Give Me Five Shillings", describing the street children she encountered and their heartbreaking situations. She had to help. And so, in 1997, Beverly started a feeding program to give twenty of Kericho's street kids one meal a day, thus helping the poorest of Kenya's poor.
Since 1997, Beverly has started several other support programs, including the STEMS, a microloan and education, project in 1998, and the Friends Across the Ocean cultural exchange program in 2000. The feeding program that originally supported Kericho's street kids has now inspired a small orphanage called the Joseph Waweru Home School, which houses twelve boys. It's here that Expanding Opportunities brings North American volunteers, who live and work at the orphanage during trips called Service Journeys.
Expanding Opportunitiesalso has a U.S. based project, Camp Forest. Camp Forest teaches a love and respect for the natural world and the knowledgeof wilderness skills from around the world.
Expanding Opportunities qualified for non-profit status in the United States on June 1, 1999, and for NGO status in Kenya shortly after. The organization is run by a board of directors, which meets regularly in the midcoast-Maine, USA region where the organization has its North American headquarters.
