Kincardine is a long way from Kenya — but that isn’t stopping a group of town residents from reaching out to the African country.
It’s called K2K — or Kincardine to Kenya — and it’s an effort to raise money and send volunteer help to help provide a home to widows and orphans affected by AIDS.
Organizer Ted Dewar said they want everyone in Kincardine to get involved and join together as a community to help those in Kenya left without homes and families because of AIDS.
The project started with the Missions Team at Kincardine Pentecostal Church when they saw a need to address a drastic human disaster in Africa caused by AIDS-related deaths and civil war.
K2K does not want to limit itself to just being a church effort.
Organizers want everyone in the Kincardine community to get involved.
Sharon Douglas says they a lot of their team members together, and their website, www.kincardinetokenya.org is up and running.
She says application forms for anyone wanting to go to Kenya are available on the website, or from Home Hardware and Books and Beans in Kincardine.
Douglas says there is a screening process to make sure that applicants are sensitive towards the Kenyan culture and are able bodied to do building work when they get there.
Kincardine to Kenya hopes to build houses at the Village of Hope, a facility that provides school, medical, nutrition, and spiritual services to 120 orphans and 60 widows who lost family members to AIDS.
K2K hopes to raise 40 thousand dollars to build two houses to house 16 orphans each.
A widow would also ive in each one to supervise the children.