Welcome 2022

We survived the fall semester. Now that 2022 has arrived, I will begin collecting backpacks and school supplies for our second annual back to school party in July. Last summer, we distributed 39 backpacks to the kids at St. Paul’s Sudanese Church in Phoenix. We...

A New School Year Has Begun

I’m happy to be back at school as a substitute teacher. Things are not quite the way they were before Covid, but slowly getting back to normal. There’s no way to predict what will happen this school year but I’m glad to see kids back at school....

St. Paul’s Back to School

On Sunday, July 25, 2021, Village Education Fund delivered 39 backpacks to the children at St. Paul’s Sudanese Episcopal in Phoenix. This was our first event that we would like to make an annual one. We hope they have a great school year and that next year we...

Back to School

We are collecting 50 backpacks over the next three months getting ready for Back-to-School fall 2021. They will be for the children of St. Paul’s Sudanese Episcopal Church in Phoenix, Arizona. We will deliver them in July. Due to Covid, we were unable to host...

The Ten Cent Story

About ten years ago, I printed a booklet of my short stories and poems for family and friends about the children and young people I had met along the way. This was before Facebook and cell phones. I didn’t think I’d ever see them again. Over time, I have...