Please support Rebecca and School for the Girls

Picture left: Lydia showing our kikoy. Picture right: our daughters Sosha and Pascalle with their beautiful bangles from Kenya.

Some time ago I asked Rebecca Opetsi Alitsi from School for the Girls to give me some more information about her life and work in Kenya. Rebecca left a comment on one of my blog entries and through her own blog I learned a bit more about the good things she's involved in in her home country. Rebecca landed on my blog via Cori's blog.
I just want to tell you that I believe that Rebecca deserves your respect and support, because she is helping girls to earn some money by making beautiful kikoys that can be bought via Rebecca's website.
I did order such a beautiful kikoy and I would like to encourage other bloggers to do the same. Please have a look at Rebecca's website and do read the following information that Rebecca kindly gave me.

I am in Kenya which is my country and I am disabled with spinal cord problem, I am at the Catholic university of Kenya where I am doing social sciences so that I can work with the community, but I live in Kibera which is the biggest slum in Africa and the second in the world and I am handling the girls from the same area who have disabled parents or are disabled themselves. In total we are nine and trying to fund raise for our school fee and as well as to encourage each other.

Kenya is a very beautiful country with many beautiful animals like elephant, lion, cheetah, girrafe and many others. The only problem is poverty whereby children are not able to afford money for their fee and hence drop out of school and engage in bad things like drug abuse and even early parent hood which is very bad for them. And hence I decided to start this project whereby we make the kikoy and sell them so as to fundraise for the girl school fee.

Just to say (almost) everything's okay

Haven't been blogging for a while - just because I am too busy living my life ;-)
This is a busy time of the year with book fairs and many other things to do. I am also involved in alpha in prison ministry and that activity takes some of my time too.
Just an update... Sosha (our eldest daughter) broke her right leg two weeks ago (at the end of her soccer training). She's doing well, but this was a very painful experience and she needs several weeks to recover from it. Her right leg (shinbone and fibula) was broken just above the ankle and the doctor has places a metal plate with some little screws under her skin to re-connect the broken bones.
We will go on a short holiday to the isle of Texel with our family - just as planned. But of course we will take it easy because of Sosha's situation.
Haven't been reading any blogs recently - sorry about that too... Just drop me a line if there's anything I really need to know. Blessings to all of you!

Do we need more darkness?

Read Mike's interesting blog entry about light pollution. I agree with Mike, in a literal sense I think we need more darkness down here!

More info about light pollution here

Changes in my bloglist

Dear blogging friends, I have made some changes in my bloglist. Some fellow bloggers are not updating their blogs anymore and sometimes I just lose contact with them. I have deleted the links to some of these blogs and added some new ones.
I am excited about some new contacts that I have made through VerveEarth. And I am also excited about the fact that my photo blog has entered the top 100 of this blogging community!
As a Dutch blogger, writing in English, I am especially interested in finding bloggers from around the globe. Many of them are Christians too, so we already share something that is very important to me. But I want to be open minded and I know that having a certain world view is also to a high degree determined by the place where you are born. So I think it is also good to exchange views and opinions with bloggers with different cultural and religious backgrounds.
I hope to add some more bloggers from Asia, South America and Africa to my favorites, especially if they are also blogging in English. Keep an eye on my bloglist and let me know if you want to be added too, so that I can have a look at your blog to find out whether your blog will be a good addition! Unfortunately I am not able to visit all the blogs all of the time, but I do try to stay in touch with most of the people that are included in my blog list. Of course I appreciate all feedback in my comments section and IN-box (abspoel at gmail dot com). Drop me a line or give me a shout!

Guest @ Cori's Blog

"You can have all kind of 'deep' discussions about God and the past and the future, but I think that it is amazing that we are able to think and discuss these things at all! Isn't it funny that we exist? Many people seem to take this for granted, but I am still amazed and excited about the fact that I am able to breath, walk, enjoy, think, sleep, dream, write, love and live!" (me @ Cori's blog)

Cori had some interesting questions for me about my country, my faith and about myself. She kindly permitted me to fill half her blog with my lengthy answers (sorry, Cori...) so that I have some space left here for this picture of me enjoying my existence. If you want to read this Q&A - have a look here. And please, do leave a comment!

Don't spend too much time here...

Go over to John's blog if you want to see something that's really worth checking out. I am talking about his blog, but also about the old lady that ministered to a guy who tried to rob her of her cash... Go and watch the video! (And feel free to come back here - anytime).