_Hi from Kenya. Life is pretty basic here. Farms that look tiny to a midwestern US eye, lots of schools, small churches and tiny retail everywhere. Lots of opportunity to improve agriculture.

I am traveling with an interfaith group from Indianapolis. We spent several days visiting a community-based partnership between Kenyan schools, churches, and Indianapolis congregations supporting 3000 AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children near Kisumu in SW Kenya. The program takes a systematic approach with good leadership from Kenyans.  Wonderful.

Now in Eldoret we met with Dr Joe Mamlin of IU Med School and AMPATH/Moi Hospital. Remarkable work they are doing saving literally hundreds of thousands from the scourge of AIDS across a huge region and supporting them on the road to self sufficiency. They have a systematic approach to all aspects of their work. It comes from Kenyans, American health professionals, and all of us through the essential poverty focused development assistance they receive from USAID.  A  public private partnership achieving remarkable results for God's children !

What I have seen makes me very glad once again for the work of Bread for the World activists in Indiana and across the country. Speaking up on behalf of the poor and hungry is a vital contribution to ending hunger.

Dave