When:
Depart from Midland June 18, 2024, return to Midland June 27, 2024
Requirements:
Valid US passport with at least six months of validity on departure date. Open to all ages 16 years and older. Minors need to be accompanied by at least one parent. A visa to enter Kenya is required, but easy to obtain. Some vaccinations are recommended by the CDC, but none are required to fly. Anti-malaria medicine is required for this trip. We will give you recommendations, but you will have to get the meds from your doctor.
Costs:
Total trip cost is approx. $4,000 per person. GCR’s Breakthrough fund will cover $2,000 per person. Each person will need spending money for meals while traveling through the airports, and for souvenirs. Hotels, meals and transportation in Kenya will be included. Each person will need to pay the visa fee, which is $52.
A $500 deposit is required by March 24. We will have two pre-trip meetings prior to our trip and the first will be on March 24, so if you are unsure you can attend that meeting before you commit. Final payments will need to be made before May 17th.
Preliminary Schedule:
Departing on the 18th, we will arrive in Nairobi on the evening of the 19th. We will see three of KWO’s children’s homes on the 20th – 22nd, then spend three days at the Vocational Training Center and see one more children’s home while we are there. We will drive back to Nairobi on the 26th and sleep there. Then we will do some sight-seeing and shopping on the 27th prior to our evening departure. We will arrive back in Midland late afternoon on the 28th.
What we will be doing:
The primary purposes of this trip are to 1.) show our Kenyan brothers and sisters how much we love them and 2.) learn about African culture and the plight of the rural poor in Africa.
To Americans accustomed to building something or helping in a VBS on a typical mission trip, this will be different. Africans place a very high value on personal visits. The act of traveling there just to spend a few hours with them will mean a lot and have lasting effects on these kids and our widows who care for them. If you have particular skills in teaching a trade or cooking or sewing, you will have an opportunity to do that at the Vocational Training Center, where our kids who have completed high school are learning a trade prior to leaving our program. If you are willing to just spend time with our students who are about to start their new lives as adults, the impact on them could be life-changing.
Contact for more information:
Tim Neale
Tim.neale@gcrcc.org
432-770-1254
