Beginning Monday, March 15, 2010, RWCS Director Matthew C. Kane, will be joining NFL players Adrian Peterson, Tommie Harris, Roy Williams and Mark Clayton, along with a team of Oklahoma City medical professionals, lawyers, business leaders and other volunteers on a journey to Uganda, Africa, to bring hope and healing to thousands of women and children who are the victims of widespread human rights violations at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony. These former child soldiers, orphans, AIDS victims, and child mothers have been displaced by war and are currently under the care of Sister Rosemary and the St. Monica Girls’ Tailoring Centre in Gulu, Uganda.
Pros for Africa will feed more than two thousand people (with support from Feed the Children), provide health care to as many as possible (thanks to Drs. Al Moorad, Suben Naidu, John Carey and Rob Tibbes) and dig water wells that will provide for the entire region for years to come (due to the efforts of the Water4 Foundation). In addition, Pros for Africa will assist in the construction of a small school building and spend countless hours playing games and sports with hundreds of eager children. Pros for Africa plans to provide the people of Uganda with a little hope, help and love – Oklahoma style. NEWS 9 and The News On 6 will have live reports starting the week of March 15 and will air a Uganda Special on April 21.
Pros for Africa is a cooperative effort through the Whitten-Newman Foundation and several other organizations and generous individuals who have come together to join Sister Rosemary and the St. Monica Girls’ Tailoring Centre in support of this truly revolutionary initiative.
For more information on Pros for Africa and its sponsors, or to make a donation, please visit: http://prosforafrica.com
For more information on the Whitten-Newman Foundation and its other charitable programs, please visit: http://www.whitten-newmanfoundation.org
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
by Chance L. Pearson