Reflexion from Eudald

It is near two weeks since we came back from Ruai. Altough I would have to clarify the verb “come back”: physically I am already in Spain, but my head is still enjoying the staying there. Almost I can say that I am still there.
Really, a travel of the characteristics of ours do not leave anyone indifferent. It is impossible to return and be the same person that has gone.
On one hand for all we have given and that has made us happy: our time, ours efforts, to teach and carry out scholar and creative activities with the children of there, the construction of the main road of the school to avoid the children getting plenty of mad when rains, the construction of the structure to put upon the water tank to let school to have current water, the medical attendance, the scholar material and drugs that have left there as well as the money and plenty of things more.
On the other hand for all we have received and that have improved us: the contact with the people there, if you know how to take the opportunity, can enrich you as human being.
And finally, for the enormous ilusion that now we have to continue working in order to contribute with our best –our “grain of sand”- for all those people we have met in Ruai and other cities of Kenya, that are still needing of our and yours contribution.

Testimony from Fr. Tony

Dear AMEAFRICA,
In your last visit to Kenya and more especially to Ruai, you left a great impact of good deeds and work there. Your work in the teaching of the children in our school was amazing, your medical concern for the people of Ruai was tremendous and your construction of a water Tank and the road within the school are all things we can be proud of.
We look forward to seeing you back again to Kenya. You recognised the administration block being built in the school. It is my hope that within the administration block that is being built in the school we can dedicate the sick bay to AMEAFRICA. To construct and furnish the sickbay will cost us a little above 6000 Euros. Kindly think about it and see if you can help in that area from a distance.
I will like to thank you immensely for your great support. I pray this friendship between us will continue for a long time to come. Kindly send me the post box address of AMEAFRICA. Stay well always.
Yours in the service of God’s people,
Fr Tony Amissah, SVD

THANKS FOR YOUR SAND GRANITE written by LORENA

Since we created the Cultural Association Ameafrica we have worked hard make sure that the children of Ruai (Kenya) may more a worthier life.Thus, little by little, we have achieved to explain to people what were our objectives in Ruai (Kenya) and those people have understood it and for that reason, have given its sand granite us.The members of the Cultural Association Ameafrica we do not know how to thank to all the people for what they have done. For that reason, through this article, we want to give THANKS to all the particular people who have collaborated, to the schools that have given materials, to the hospitals and centres of health who have helped us with medical supplies and specially to the banking organization CaixAlmassora that because of its aid we have made a great push as much at economic and material level like in the accomplishment of some arrangments.
To all you: THANKS A LOT!

FOR WORLD WORTHIER written by EUDALD

Reading the ameafrica aims: aid and the cooperation in the matter of education, culture and health:let us make a special look on education:In our society of the well-being every time we hear on news promising to us a wonderful future. New medicines that will cure everything, systems to purify the water that contaminate our industries, miraculous creams that extended our life and will obtain that we pretend eternal dreamed youth, more healthful and ecological foods, exhaust pipes that will not contaminate so much…. All these things are so good and we will enjoy them.The promises of a world better cannot be ignored by anybody. And the solution is in the access to the information.Without this access, the gap between the developed countries and the poor countries will be (it is the case) more and more great.In our hands, since we have this knowledge, he is extensive to do it to all the people, without distinction. All the people deserve knowledge so that they can have a better future. And they deserve that we teach them how to reach this goal.And this is for better future for everybody, also for most underprivileged of the African people, and hence this moves us as “AMEAFRICA” volunteers .

The CULTURE IS THE KEY OF THE LIFE written by LORENA

Within two months and half, approximately, we will travel to Ruai (Kenya) which overflows a culture different from ours. What exciting is to know its customs, the way to be and to live, its routine of every day…!
To go to Africa is to go to the encounter of a culture with a great wealth. It is to go, first of all, to learn its customs and traditions and thus to be able to value, to become rich, to share, to love and to live more deeply our faith.
Like every human being, we have acquired the culture to through of the family and the place in which we have been born and to which we belong.
But if we look in the dictionary the word CULTURE, this one means: "Intellectual or artistic development". Which is the best place to be able to develop it? THE SCHOOL.
But the school also needs means, at least basic, to be able to teach. For that reason, it is necessary that the school of Ruai ((Kenya) can have a building with library so that children not only may remain with the traditions and customs of their town, but that also learn through books.
Therefore, the culture includes all the aspects of the life of a human being: its form to dress, the food, the form to greet each others, the relationship among the people, in special, the place who occupy in the life of the people, the learning,… among other many things.
So, they are going to open the doors to us of Africa and we are going to leave our sand of granite to them.

IN ORDER TO LIVE IN A BETTER WORLD AND MORE JUST written by EUDALD

If an extraterrestrial one would come to visit to us, surely would he think that all the people we are equal?Do we all enjoy the same opportunities?Do we all have in practical way (no in theoretical way ) the same rights?Do we all enjoy the same well-being?Do we all have television set flat screen, mobile phone with wap technology, laptop with wi-fi to connect to us in any place and at any moment?Do we all eat every day? Do we all have potable water just by opening the faucet?These and other many questions, unfortunately have an answer that all we know very well… but that we try to remove from our mind. We are very well installed in our comfortable well-being to the point somebody comes to tell us that the other people also exist and most of them do not enjoy a standard of life like us… and if we do not do nothing partly we are becoming accomplices and responsible of this injustice… And those other people are also like us: “ If they pierce, do not we bleed? If they tickle to us, do not we laugh? if they poison to us, do not not die? “(of The merchant of Venice of Shakespeare).We are not the good and justice, but still we can contribute our “sand granite” to live more just in a better world and more juest.

COLLABORATION WITH AMEAFRICA written by MARUJA

We, people who we are working to the Ruai project to make it soon a reality, we do it of disinterested form, as it is shown in the Statutes of our Association.
Some we will travel this summer until there, with much illusion and desire to work, to meet with those children and to share with them its joy and anxieties to know them and to learn from them.
The expenses generated by journey and stay of the people who we will travel are financed personal and exclusively by each one. None of Ameafrica contribution will be destined to this aim.
Therefore, all the contributions completely will be invested in the accomplishment of the project, of which we will give all the information.
But we needed your help help to make reality this dream.
How you can do it?
There are two ways of contributing:
1. being member of the Association. The contribution of the members is of 30€ a year. Although also you can make the contributions that you wish.
2. The people who are not members can still contributing the amount that they like throughout the year and whenever they want.
As you see in our blog, it is already at your disposition the account number.
So it is only possible to say that we encourage you to collaborate:
the smile of a boy you will thank you.
We will keep you informed.
Thanks for your generosity!