Mountain Park Academy
Beginning in 1998, at significant sacrifice and effort, the Robi family built the present 4th-8th grade classroom building to accommodate many of the children not being educated in the local area around their home near Nakuru, Kenya. As they provided this facility, God brought the students to fill the concrete building along with the wooden storage-like buildings on their property that have mud floors and no lighting.
Mission teams, originally started by Mountain Park United Methodist Church in Stone Mountain, GA began providing medical and administrative assistance in 2000. Two major projects by mission teams included the formation of a library and the building of a playground, both the first of their kind in the area around Nakuru. A dining hall was funded and built in 2007 to aid in the feeding program for the children. Out of gratitude, the Robis formally named the school after the church that helped start The Kenya Project, and the school became known as MOUNTAIN PARK ACADEMY. As more churches and individuals became involved in this needed project, a 501c3 non-profit corporation (The Kenya Project for Educational and Spiritual Growth) was established in 2003 to provide child sponsorships, organize missions and to allow donors to make tax deductible contributions.
As members of additional mission teams from churches in the Atlanta area also fell in love with the children of Githironii near Nakuru, a guest house was built for mission teams, a well and water purification system was constructed, a home for orphans was built, and now a second classroom building is underway to move the youngest students out of the dark, damp temporary buildings to proper classrooms.
As God has provided in so many ways to date, THE KENYA PROJECT is hopeful and trusting in provision of the final $150,000 of this $700,000 project in order to open doors for the new classroom building and secondary school needed in January, 2012.
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