EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO POSITIVELY FULFILL THEIR DESTINY, LEAD AND GIVE BACK.

This is a fully sponsored 4 day hands on workshop geared towards helping to identify one’s purpose as well as possible obstacles and how to overcome these.

Speakers include a mental health specialist, a success coach, an infectious disease specialist as well as a career coach. Thus far 50 girls from Sotik School in Kenya and 7 from Kendu bay, Kenya have attended. These girls were chosen due to their dire socio-economic status. Attendees then become Blooming Lily ambassadors with mentors available for the rest of their path.

A donation of $200 sponsors a girl to attend the retreat, held in December of every year.

This project aims to illuminate the way to success for the 131 girls from Sotik school in Kenya. We aim to provide mentorship, exposure and connections to the world beyond their village, as most of them have never left.

• The initial step was the successful provision of 131 solar light to the girls, who would otherwise have no means to study or read after dark.
• In the next phase, the foundation is working on providing computers to the school. 7 computers have been donated thus far. The challenge remains securing Internet connectivity in this rural area.
• Future efforts include offering computer skills.

Many girls in developing countries stay home from school at least one week out of every month because they lack of means of taking care of their sanitary needs. This predisposes them to poor performance, school drop out and thus minimal education, an initial stumbling block. The foundation provides a year’s worth of sanitary pads to the 180 girls at Sotik School in Kenya. Recently, the Mormon Women group in Great Falls, MT hand-made and sent reusable sanitary pads, which we delivered directly to the girls.

A donation of $12 supplies one girl with pads for one year.

The foundation supports the Kendu Kids Klub in Kendu Bay, Kenya. This is a club of approximately 300 children and youth, ages 0-23, who are HIV positive though maternal contraction, and most are orphaned. A monthly free lunch allows the group to have a lighthearted fun activity, giving respite from an otherwise challenging existence. Encouragement and reward is also given for adherence to medical treatment. Other provisions include shoes and clothing. A donation of $10 will buy a single lunch for 5 of these children.

The foundation supports a clean water initiative through a water filter drive. For $22 we provide a rural home with a water filter and thus save lives by avoiding water born diseases and parasitic infections.

The foundation has also been charged with building a well at the Sotik School in Kenya. An onsite water source would eliminate having to rely on trapping rainwater or going to nearby seasonal streams for water. The foundation has received a donation of $2000 towards this project. Our goal is $8000.

The foundation provides opportunities for Blooming Lily ambassadors (retreat attendees who have been previously fully sponsored to the exclusive experience) to be involved in their immediate communities and give back in a non-financial way.

The foundation provides an opportunity for our supporters from outside Kenya to participate and contribute in our annual retreats.

Through our material donations, the foundation has supported local charities in St. Tammany parish.