Well we officially have the details laid out for our trip this winter. The dates are going to be dec 18-jan 3rd! We are teaming up with maishia international orphanage in Nairobi to host a soccer tournament in the slums of the capital. After that we will be moving about 4 hours north to Nakuru to build a soccer field and community center with the Nakuru Baby Orphanage.
This will be by far the biggest project for k4k but we are very excited about it! We would love for you to join us in trying to make a difference for the young people of kenya! We will need your financial support for the logistics of shipping equipment over and rebuilding the soccer field. We also need everything from jereseys and balls to whistles and cones!
If you are involved with a club or high school soccer team or know of someone that is this is a great time to get involved. We would love for you to get involved with our Teams4Teams program or even just have an equipment drive and collect old equipment. We would love to get a lot of people involed with these projects!
If you have any questions don't hesitate to shoot me and email and I will respond as quickly as possible! Once again thank you for the support and looking forward to a productive summer!
K4K out!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
A special date and a special project
Hope this blog post finds everyone in good shape! Things have really been good for us lately....very busy. It was 3 years ago this month (don't remember the exact day) that the idea Kicks4Kenya was created. Hard to believe how far things have progressed in such a short amount of time....thank you so much for all your help!! None of it would be possible without your support!!
On that note we have a special project planned for our december 09 trip to Kenya. We are going to be teaming up with the nakuru baby orphanage that we stayed with on our last trip to build a community rec center in the nakuru city center! This complex will not only include a soccer field, but also basketball courts, playgrounds, and much more! This truly is a great opportunity to help an entire community of children!
Obviously the cost of this project will be substantial so we are starting our fundraisers now. We are working with coffeeXperts.com selling coffee to raise the money. Each 1 LB bag of coffee is only $12 and 2 LB bags are $24. So tell all your coffee drinking friends to order their coffee through this great company! This is an ongoing fundraiser as well....so if you run out go and order some more! drink some coffee and help make a difference! So go to our special link on their website and get your coffee today!
http://www.coffeexperts.com/kicks4kenya.aspx
Also our first set of t shirts will be on the website soon so keep an eye out for those. Thanks again for all your supprt and allowing us to do what we do!!
K4K out
On that note we have a special project planned for our december 09 trip to Kenya. We are going to be teaming up with the nakuru baby orphanage that we stayed with on our last trip to build a community rec center in the nakuru city center! This complex will not only include a soccer field, but also basketball courts, playgrounds, and much more! This truly is a great opportunity to help an entire community of children!
Obviously the cost of this project will be substantial so we are starting our fundraisers now. We are working with coffeeXperts.com selling coffee to raise the money. Each 1 LB bag of coffee is only $12 and 2 LB bags are $24. So tell all your coffee drinking friends to order their coffee through this great company! This is an ongoing fundraiser as well....so if you run out go and order some more! drink some coffee and help make a difference! So go to our special link on their website and get your coffee today!
http://www.coffeexperts.com/kicks4kenya.aspx
Also our first set of t shirts will be on the website soon so keep an eye out for those. Thanks again for all your supprt and allowing us to do what we do!!
K4K out
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
New support opportunity coming up
Thanks to our good friends at PacificTshirtCo we are going to have a new opportunity for our supporters to help us and our goal to raise moeny to renovate a soccer field in kenya!! As part of this great companies grand opening we are co-developing a special "charity" T-shirt with all the proceeds going to our project! This is a great opportunity to not only help two great organizations but also help change the lives of thousands of children! You can either go to PacificShirt.com or kicks4kenya.org within the next couple weeks to help us out! Thank you for your continued support and a special thanks to PacificTshirtCo!
k4k Out!
k4k Out!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
First Group Trip Planned!
Greetings to everyone out there on the interweb! It has been awesome to hear all of the positive feedback from the new website....thanks again Adam! Really cool to see our small idea grow into something like this.....very humbling.
Over the past several months we have had quite a few people ask when we are going to take another trip over and also ask about possibly joining us on it. The idea of getting a group of young people to travel with us has always been a goal of mine, so after figuring out a few details we have decided that now is a good time to plan our first ever group trip to kenya! I think it is awesome that because of all this we have people coming to us asking to travel halfway across the world to help out others...so cool! So this December-January, we will be taking a month long trip to nakuru, kenya to help renovate a community soccer field of a team we helped on our last trip in 2007, as well as work in the community with the street youth. Our main goal will be to provide a safe place for children from all across the city to come and play soccer.
We have 4 people already booked ready to go and are willing to take 2 more. So if you or someone you know is interested in traveling to Africa to play some soccer and help others all at the same time, contact me!!
Due to the cost of this project, we are asking for your help. The renovation of the field will cost around $5,000 US and the cost for each person on the trip will be around $3,000. So in total we are looking at about $15,000 for this trip. We are saving money of our own as well, but we will need your help and support to make this trip a reality! We will be hosting several fundraisers during the summer that we would love your support with! We are not asking for alot because as I have seen in the past, every dollar counts! If you are willing to help out in anyway please visit our donation page on our website or email me with any questions!
http://www.kicks4kenya.org/donate.php
With your donation we will send you a complete packet recapping our trip upon our arrival. We will also send you the bio and photo of one special child that your generous donation helped during our stay! We will also be creating a special trip page on the website soon so you can track the progress of our goal to raise the $15,000!
Thats all I have for now so thank you for the time and looking forward to speaking again and seeing what the future holds!
k4k Out
Over the past several months we have had quite a few people ask when we are going to take another trip over and also ask about possibly joining us on it. The idea of getting a group of young people to travel with us has always been a goal of mine, so after figuring out a few details we have decided that now is a good time to plan our first ever group trip to kenya! I think it is awesome that because of all this we have people coming to us asking to travel halfway across the world to help out others...so cool! So this December-January, we will be taking a month long trip to nakuru, kenya to help renovate a community soccer field of a team we helped on our last trip in 2007, as well as work in the community with the street youth. Our main goal will be to provide a safe place for children from all across the city to come and play soccer.
We have 4 people already booked ready to go and are willing to take 2 more. So if you or someone you know is interested in traveling to Africa to play some soccer and help others all at the same time, contact me!!
Due to the cost of this project, we are asking for your help. The renovation of the field will cost around $5,000 US and the cost for each person on the trip will be around $3,000. So in total we are looking at about $15,000 for this trip. We are saving money of our own as well, but we will need your help and support to make this trip a reality! We will be hosting several fundraisers during the summer that we would love your support with! We are not asking for alot because as I have seen in the past, every dollar counts! If you are willing to help out in anyway please visit our donation page on our website or email me with any questions!
http://www.kicks4kenya.org/donate.php
With your donation we will send you a complete packet recapping our trip upon our arrival. We will also send you the bio and photo of one special child that your generous donation helped during our stay! We will also be creating a special trip page on the website soon so you can track the progress of our goal to raise the $15,000!
Thats all I have for now so thank you for the time and looking forward to speaking again and seeing what the future holds!
k4k Out
Saturday, May 23, 2009
New Teams4Teams Program launched!
Big news here in the K4K world. First off our new website is up and running! www.kicks4kenya.org. A special thanks to Adam Havens for all his work in getting up and looking awesome! So check it out for all your newest K4K info.....
Finally our newest initiative has officially been launched and its called Teams4Teams!! Wether you have a high school, club, recreational, or any other type of team, we want your help. We are asking your entire team to get together to help support an entire team in Kenya. This can include everything from shoes and balls to books and food. We have the opportunity to make such a huge difference so by grouping up and doing something with friends we can make an even bigger difference! For more info or if you would like to sponsor a team please email me at twidbin@kicks4kenya.org!
Thanks for all the support and keep in touch this summer for all information on fundraisers and activities!!
K4K Out
Finally our newest initiative has officially been launched and its called Teams4Teams!! Wether you have a high school, club, recreational, or any other type of team, we want your help. We are asking your entire team to get together to help support an entire team in Kenya. This can include everything from shoes and balls to books and food. We have the opportunity to make such a huge difference so by grouping up and doing something with friends we can make an even bigger difference! For more info or if you would like to sponsor a team please email me at twidbin@kicks4kenya.org!
Thanks for all the support and keep in touch this summer for all information on fundraisers and activities!!
K4K Out
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Twitter Challenge
Well as most of you probably know Twitter is unofficially the new mainstream media highway ever since the Ashton kutcher vs CNN race to a million followers. I got an idea to use Twitter in a way to really get the word out about k4k.
My goal is by June 1st. to get to 1,000 followers. Then for the month of June, get each one of those followers to donate at least $1. If everything works out how I am hoping we will then have at least $1,000 dollars to use to repair a soccer field for one of the teams we worked with in 2007 on our upcoming trip. So come on everyone follow the link below and start following and help make a difference with only a $1!
http://twitter.com/kicks4kenya
k4k,
OUT!
My goal is by June 1st. to get to 1,000 followers. Then for the month of June, get each one of those followers to donate at least $1. If everything works out how I am hoping we will then have at least $1,000 dollars to use to repair a soccer field for one of the teams we worked with in 2007 on our upcoming trip. So come on everyone follow the link below and start following and help make a difference with only a $1!
http://twitter.com/kicks4kenya
k4k,
OUT!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
A new outlook and motivation
Well I dont really know where to start this post off so Ill just go for it. Alot has happened in the last 3-4 months that has caused me to lose all focus on Kicks4Kenya. Everything from losing a job going through a few problems, etc. I lost desire to put in the time and effort into what it takes to keep K4K working.
I dont know what it was but it just hit me the other day how much I am letting everyone down. Everyone from the kids in Kenya to the hundreds of people who have donated their time, money, and prayers into what we do. It hit me like a ton of bricks that here I am wasting my time feeling sorry for myself about a few things that have gone wrong with me and yet the kids in Kenya we have tried to help live with it everyday and never feel sorry for themselves. So to everyone who has supported K4K I just want to say that I am sorry. I will try my hardest to not let anyone down again.
With that being said things are really going to start changing in the next month and by change I mean become ridiculously awesome. Our first line of Tshirts are going to be coming out and be for sale exclusively at SoccerPro.com. We are also getting a completely brand new interactive website built. Finally we are coming out with a few great fundraising and volunteer opportunities and also planning a group to work in Kenya for a couple weeks over next Christmas break.
Finally I want to let a HUGE thank you to everyone at SoccerPro.com and Soccergrow.org!! There extremely generous promotion of doubling all donations during Christmas time was a extremely kind gesture and we cannot thank them enough!
So everyone Im sorry for the last few month hiatus but promise it will not happen again and that things will only be done to promote Kicks4Kenya. Thank you everyone for your support in the past and the future!
K4K out
I dont know what it was but it just hit me the other day how much I am letting everyone down. Everyone from the kids in Kenya to the hundreds of people who have donated their time, money, and prayers into what we do. It hit me like a ton of bricks that here I am wasting my time feeling sorry for myself about a few things that have gone wrong with me and yet the kids in Kenya we have tried to help live with it everyday and never feel sorry for themselves. So to everyone who has supported K4K I just want to say that I am sorry. I will try my hardest to not let anyone down again.
With that being said things are really going to start changing in the next month and by change I mean become ridiculously awesome. Our first line of Tshirts are going to be coming out and be for sale exclusively at SoccerPro.com. We are also getting a completely brand new interactive website built. Finally we are coming out with a few great fundraising and volunteer opportunities and also planning a group to work in Kenya for a couple weeks over next Christmas break.
Finally I want to let a HUGE thank you to everyone at SoccerPro.com and Soccergrow.org!! There extremely generous promotion of doubling all donations during Christmas time was a extremely kind gesture and we cannot thank them enough!
So everyone Im sorry for the last few month hiatus but promise it will not happen again and that things will only be done to promote Kicks4Kenya. Thank you everyone for your support in the past and the future!
K4K out
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