This has been a success! We raised about $106 when we were tabling. Then individual trip participants and their families made donations that totaled about $183. Patrick set up a Z-Burger fundraiser for us, which will just add additional donations for Fountain of Hope in general. So we earned enough to buy mosquito nets for all 40 of the kids!!!! I am very proud of our group and how quickly we were able to get this done, and how willing people were to help these kids. It's great to see people join together to help these kids who already have so much less than us. So thank you to everyone who helped and tabled and donated money! We hope to send the money to RAPIDS as soon as possible so that the kids can get the nets as soon as possible.
Interning at AFJN was an interesting experience. I had a lot of great opportunities and learned a lot about street children in various parts of Africa. On Monday I went to a forum with the new envoy to Sudan. It was really disappointing to hear him say, "I don't know what to do. If you have ideas let me know, but right now we are just going to keep putting pressures on them and see if they cooperate." I had hoped that he would have at least an idea of what to do, but I guess he's new so he needs a chance to prove himself. Hopefully he will come up with a new idea soon though, because something needs to be done sooner rather than later.
-Katie
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