Usher Teams Up With the Obamas

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I am affiliated with a dynamic group of African American women, who are not wealthy but pretty accomplished in who we are individually and collectively. We go to Kenya once and more recently twice a year to engage in joint ventures with accomplished Kenyan women who have been volunteering in the slums, and villages. We specialize in donating to clean water (maji safi) sanitary products for girl students, establishing lending libraries in schools and villages. We are the African American Kenyan Women Interconnect www.aakewo.com and we kind of stay under the radar, but the movement is growing. What a great way to go back home after being away for 400 years.

Dawn of WA 11:51PM May 02, 2009

I think that it is fabulous that the Obama's are pushing volunteerism. I work for a Hospice agency and we are in desperate need of volunteers to read to patients, knit blankets or just visit the patients and talk. Over the last few years, our numbers have dropped dramatically and right now I only have one person willing to volunteer to help out and that is my husband! I hope this feeling of community spreads and people in my area decide that volunteering their time is not a waste of their time, but a generous shring of it with someone who needs to feel appreciated.

Theresa of TX 2:42PM April 25, 2009