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Supporting Literacy and Success in School

2/17/2017

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Appleseed offers extra lessons for students in grades 1-12. Few children do well in Zambian schools without extra support in the basics of reading, writing and mathematics. We are dedicated to making the Zambian curriculum more accessible by teaching strong reading and math skills to children in grades 1 through 6. Tuitions at the secondary level are focused on studying for the grades 7, 9 and 12 government exams.

Costs

$16.00/month (160 kwacha) provides 3 one hour tutoring sessions and lunch 5 days per week. ($180 per year- per child)

There are currently 32 scholarship children in the program. We are seeking funding to sustain this scholarship program and ultimately expand it to more children whose families cannot afford the service. In addition to supporting children of the Bauleni community, RHO Appleseed also supports 3 tutors in growing their businesses. They are able to advertise their services to non-Appleseed members, who are able to pay for services, thereby earning more money for themselves while aiding in the effort to make RHO Appleseed self sustaining.

We are also seeking funding for other programs including Secondary Student Sponsorship, Lunch Service, Sports, Pre-School and the Arts. Look for further information on those programs! 

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So Much Happening, it's Hard to Keep Up!

9/21/2016

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It has been way too long since I last updated the Appleseed blog. I will try to be thorough, but concise!
    
Since the big transition from Community School to Community Center we have lost some members, but gained many more. The center is now open 6 days per week from          8:00 am - 7:00pm (8:00 - 19:00.) We now serve children as well as adults. It is exciting to see young men and women there in the evening time, studying, playing music, using the computers and socializing with one another.

During the morning and afternoon hours the center is teeming with activity and excitement. Children are receiving extra tutoring in reading and math that is scheduled around their school hours. Generally, Zambian kids are in school for only 3 hours per day, so our members spend much more time at Appleseed than they do in the government schools. In addition to tutoring sessions, they play games, use computers, read in the library, dance and sing. They are also served lunch 5 days per week.

Because we no longer have to focus on training and paying teachers, our staff can focus on the fun activities that a community center should be able to provide. Since the transition, we have added an exciting Dance Around the World class with the Zambian King of Salsa, Jophael Banda. Staff members Paul and John take extra lessons with Jophael during the week, so they are very adept at teaching the kids as well. This group is AMAZING! They have had one opportunity to perform at the local ZOCA Kids event. We are always looking for more performance opportunities!  Ms. Amanda, the leader of ZOCA Kids here in Zambia, will be starting a ZOCA Kids class for the younger kids at Appleseed very soon. 

We have been very fortunate to have Val Harwood, from her NGO called The Reading Box, come to Appleseed to train our staff on sharing books with children. She has had 2 sessions so far and the staff have loved them! They are very excited to continue learning about how to share books and read aloud to children. 

Another exciting project coming to Appleseed is the 'Sack Garden' project. This is a program that focuses on uplifting women in the compound by teaching them the sack garden technique and providing them with supplies to start their own vegetable gardens. We will be working with our friends at In & Out of the Ghetto to get the project started. The hope is that the women will be able to provide the vegetables for their families and to be able to keep their gardens going each season, possibly even being able to grow enough to start a small business of selling their vegetables. 

Another big addition to the center is football (soccer.) We now support 4 different teams; the Amateurs (under 20), the Under 17, Under 12 and Under 8. They are all so fun to watch! Coach Caphas and Manager Shadreck, keep it all going. The teams have put Appleseed on the map, so to say, because they travel around Lusaka and surrounding areas for tournaments. They are quite good! We have 6 trophies decorating library that celebrate their achievements! 

There is so much more to tell, but that will be for another blog post. In the meantime, please browse the new and improved website to keep abreast of the activities at RHO APPLESEED COMMUNITY CENTERS!

     
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First Posted - Dec 2014 Change: Appleseedlings Transition

1/2/2016

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     While a necessary part of life, change can be difficult. We started ‘Appleseed School’ when we found that we wanted to be a part of the lives of the children we were meeting. We wanted to help improve their lives but most of all, we just liked being around them. They made us happy, so Appleseed began. 
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    ​We operated as a community school for 3 years. During that time there have been extreme highs and extreme lows, but the one thing that has never wavered is the smiles of the kids and how they made us feel. ​ We believe strongly that we must have a scaleable and sustainable model in order for Appleseed to be successful for the long term. To that end, we have decided to make some changes to the structure of RHO Appleseed.
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The new Appleseed, will be RHO Appleseed Library and Community Center. We will continue to serve the 100 Appleseed students at no cost to their families. In January, current Appleseed students will attend the local government school, and will receive 3 hours of small group tutoring per week at Appleseed. They will have a meal voucher for each of their tutoring days. In addition, Appleseed kids will receive scholarships for extra curricular classes such as soccer, choir, art, etc.
     The center will also be a lending library. We will begin by giving Appleseed families lending privileges. There is currently no service of this kind in the Bauleni community. We have been cautioned a number of times that people will not return the books. However, we feel that with training and trust, the community will want this service and will make it work. This is predominately a culture of non-readers simply due to lack of books. No one has access to books in the home. We are very excited to be the first to try a lending library in Bauleni.
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      While we are excited about the future of Appleseed, we are also sad for the loss of the current school. The change is difficult for everyone; Ken and I, the teachers, but most of all, the students. They are nervous. I think they worry about losing the family feeling that we have at Appleseed. We have assured them that Appleseed is still their place, it will be open more hours and be a place where they can hang out, read, play games and learn after school. Kids in the compound desperately need something to do after school. Currently, the school is locked up at 3:30. We are excited about offering afternoon and evening activities. After this school year (which ends in November) Appleseed will reopen with its new model where we will eventually serve many more people in the Bauleni Compound. 
Our friend, Diego, told us, “The compound is speaking to you, and you are humble enough to listen.”
Diego runs an NGO, In and Out of the Ghetto, and lives in the compound. He has been a wonderful sounding board through some difficult times.

Change: Difficult, Necessary, Transformative, EXCITING!

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The End of Days

5/23/2015

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How else can one feel about things when a four year old is taken from us for no reason while 65 families have more wealth than billions of people combined?

It was a typical Sunday morning for Joy and me. We started out at Appleseed then went over to the football pitch to watch our under 15 team play. The other team did not show up so we decided to run over to Lucy, Jenni and Colette’s house to bring them some clothes and shoes that had been in the car for a while. When I approached the house I heard it. It was clear, utterly familiar and unmistakable. I had heard these sounds before, but I was still confused. I think we are always confused when we are facing something so horrible that our brain doesn’t let us see clearly no matter how obvious. It was the wailing. It was the chorus of women mourning an unimaginable loss.

Joy and I first witnessed this when we escorted Moses, an AISL employee, home to inform his mother that her husband had just been killed in a terrifying bike accident in front of the American school. The outpouring of grief, loss and utter despair is something that stays with you … forever.  So when I heard it yesterday I should not have been confused, but I was.

What was going on? And then it hit me … like a sledgehammer. Someone was gone … and it was a member of Lucy, Jenni, Colette, Patrick, and Shadreck’s family! Please, not grandma. We just saw her. She was fine. Who will take care of the girls?

 No, it wasn’t grandma. Whew! But who, what was going on?

And then another sledgehammer and more confusion when the Aunt came out from the “wailing room” and came up to me and said, “Ken, we have lost Colette.” What? Of course I did not hear that correctly. Colette is the youngest in the family. She’s only 4. Colette was at Appleseed in her preschool class on Friday. Colette was playing with her older brother Patrick on Saturday. This is Sunday morning. Surely, I must have lost something in translation. Please, I must have heard wrong … but I didn’t. Colette was gone.  COLETTE! The reality hit and I staggered, fell to my knees and began to sob. Apparently, she woke up during the night with a high fever and Grandma took her to the clinic but by morning she was gone.

I know this is not the end of days. And I know that time, as it always does, will soften this blow. I don’t care about the concentration of wealth and the inordinate suffering in the world. I don’t give a shit. I just want to hug Colette again. I just want to watch her smile and laugh when she is playing with her friends at Appleseed. I just want to watch her grow up. I want, I want, I want … I feel so selfish.

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In memory of beautiful little Colette

5/17/2015

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I guess helpless is the word.  We try to help. We bring food, give money for burial, but, the suffering just goes on and on. How is fair that some people in this world have lives full of suffering while others cruise through life as if they are charmed?
Me…. I have had a charmed life. Raised in a happy middle class home with the greatest example of love and family that there ever could be. I had close friends, a tight knit extended family. Best husband and daughters I could ever even imagine.

I didn’t’ experience death until I was 13, I think, an elderly neighbor and family friend. The next death I experienced wasn’t’ until adulthood. Of course, it is expected that the older you get, the more sorrow you will experience.  It is a charmed life that gets the advantage of age and growth in order to be better able to deal with tragedy.

My friends here in Zambia experience tragic and unnecessary death all of the time. It is expected and accepted.  I know more orphaned children and young adults than I ever could have imagined 5 years ago. People lose a loved one. They mourn. They begin to get back to normal (their normal- nothing like my normal)
…. then boom, another loss. It seems a part of everyday life for so many people here. Each tragic and heartbreaking.

I will miss this little girl with all of my heart. Colette started at Appleseed about 8 months ago, but we met her in 2012 when she was just a baby. She was finally old enough to be an Appleseedling. Her brothers already live at the center, her two sisters have been Appleseedlings for a few years. It was so wonderful having little Colette too. She had begun blossoming, smiling and laughing with her friends in the pre-grade class.  We saw her sisters bloom in the same way when they first began at Appleseed.

And then, this morning………….. we had just left the boys at the soccer pitch. We had a box of clothes and shoes that I had been meaning to take to Jenny, Lucy and Colette. So, we headed to their house. We immediately knew that something was terribly wrong. The house was wailing as a Zambian home does when someone has died.

This family suffered this just 2 weeks ago when the young father to Jenny, Lucy and Colette passed away. And now, after having a high fever in the middle of the night, little Colette died at the clinic this morning.

I don’t know how people persevere. I don’t know how to change this reality.

The inequities….. the luck or un-luck of birth…. makes no sense... simply unacceptable.

We love you, Colette 

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$40 Buys a Set of Textbooks! Please Help.

4/2/2014

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     A huge problem with education in Zambia is that students do not have text books. Because of this, teachers copy the lesson from the book, onto the blackboard for the students to copy. Often, the kids cannot read what they’ve just copied. 
     The textbooks are pretty good. They teach the important skills that everyone needs to know, and skills specific to life in Zambia as well. The problem is that it takes so much class time for the students to copy the entire lesson each day, that the activities are skipped. These activities are where the learning really happens.... they shouldn’t be skipped over!

    
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     At Appleseed,we want our teachers to be able to use more current teaching methods and that can begin with each child having a set of books. It is our goal to do this for each child, but it is imperative that we do it NOW for our 7th graders.
      With their own books, they can read and discuss the lesson together in class and spend time doing the activities that go with the lesson.
     These children will take a very important and high stakes exam in October. Every seventh grade student must take and pass this exam in order to go on to Secondary school. Their score dictates which secondary school they get into. Our kids have high hopes for this test. I have faith in them, but I am also extremely nervous for them. They had very few academic skills or knowledge when they came to Appleseed, and they are making up for lost time. Their thirst for knowledge is inspiring!

     In order to give them the very best chance to pass this big exam, we are raising funds to buy each 7th grader a set of textbooks. Unlike textbooks in the U.S. they are not that expensive. Each book is about $8.00 and they need 5 subjects each. Please consider helping one of these hard working and dedicated kids!!
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Another Crazy Week

5/5/2013

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It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks at Appleseed! We moved out of the building that we had been renting since November of 2011. After many difficulties with the landlord, we parted ways. It was bittersweet, kind of nice to move on, but at the time we were not sure where we would be conducting school. We thought we would be at a local church, but this was not ideal as it is only one room and we weren’t sure how we would accommodate all classes and the church people were not telling us what they were planning to charge. 
     Fortunately, we have many wonderful people who help to make Appleseed run. One of them is “Coach K.” Coach K is one of the men who coaches our kids twice a week in soccer. He is also a coach at the American International School and a former professional soccer player on a South African team. A few days ago, Coach K said that he has a friend who has a house that we may be able to rent. We met with his friend and saw his house. It is, like the other one, an unfinished building, but much nicer than our old building. We came to an agreement about rent and preparing the house for our use. We agreed to a 3 to 6 month lease. We hope to be there for 6 months, while we raise funds to build our first building on the new land, but, we may have to leave sooner as the owner is trying to sell another house and move into this one when his other is sold. So, it is not ideal, but it is certainly better than the alternative! The best part..... he is putting in a real flush toilet, running water and all!!! 
     Two of our teachers have been staying with us for the past 3 nights, because they had lived at the school and had nowhere to go. Tonight, they are in the new house. Also, one of our neediest kids will be moving in with them. Jimmy (James- 13 years old) who has been with us from day one, has had to move out of his mother’s house (she has no room for him.) He has been sleeping at the house of a family friend. The word friend is used very loosely here. He is only allowed to be there for the sleeping hours and has no bed, it is literally just a roof over his head when it is dark outside. He leaves at daybreak and returns at night to sleep. They offer him no food at all. He goes to Mary's house and eats all meals with her when the school is not open. We won't reopen until May 13th when all other Zambian schools reopen. Jimmy keeps his beautiful smile, he is always where ever Appleseed is, he truly considers it his home and family. I haven't had a chance to check, but I am sure that he is with Teacher Vincent and Teacher John tonight.
      So, that is a partial synopsis of the last week or so. In the midst of this we were preparing for our biggest fundraising effort in Zambia, since we have been here. The concert was a huge success and lots of fun. I will tell more about the wonderful night very soon!
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks at Appleseed! We moved out of the building that we had been renting since November of 2011. After many difficulties with the landlord, we parted ways. It was bittersweet, kind of nice to move on, but at the time we were not sure where we would be conducting school. We thought we would be at a local church, but this was not ideal as it is only one room and we weren’t sure how we would accommodate all classes and the church people were not telling us what they were planning to charge. 




Fortunately, we have many wonderful people who help to make Appleseed run. One of them is “Coach K.” Coach K is one of the men who coaches our kids twice a week in soccer. He is also a coach at the American International School and a former professional soccer player on a South African team. A few days ago, Coach K said that he has a friend who has a house that we may be able to rent. We met with his friend and saw his house. It is, like the other one, an unfinished building, but much nicer than our old building. We came to an agreement about rent and preparing the house for our use. We agreed to a 3 to 6 month lease. We hope to be there for 6 months, while we raise funds to build our first building on the new land, but, we may have to leave sooner as the owner is trying to sell another house and move into this one when his other is sold. So, it is not ideal, but it is certainly better than the alternative! The best part..... he is putting in a real flush toilet, running water and all!!! 




Two of our teachers have been staying with us for the past 3 nights, because they had lived at the school and had nowhere to go. Tonight, they are in the new house. Also, one of our neediest kids will be moving in with them. Jimmy (James) who has been with us from day one, has had to move out of his mother’s house (she has no room for him.) He has been sleeping at the house of a family friend. The word friend is used very loosely here. He is only allowed to be there for the sleeping hours. He leaves at daybreak and returns at night to sleep. They offer him no food at all. Yet, Jimmy keeps his beautiful smile, he is always where ever Appleseed is. I am assuming he is with Teacher Vincent and Teacher John tonight.




So, that is a partial synopsis of the last week or so. In the midst of this we were preparing for our biggest fundraising effort in Zambia, since we have been here. The concert was a huge success and lots of fun. I will tell more about the wonderful night 

very soon!




Thanks for reading! 

Thanks for reading! 

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What a Few Weeks!!

4/21/2013

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The last couple of weeks have been a time of restlessness for us at RHO Appleseed. We have known for quite some time that we were going to have to move from our current rented building, but we were hoping to stay through June. Unfortunately, our landlord has not been reasonable. After destroying our swing set, taking away all of our play area and raising the rent by 60%, we had had enough. So, we have had a parting of the ways and will vacate the building at the end of this month. 
     

This realization has left me and Mary with very nervous feelings, neither of us sleeping very well. Ken seems to hide his stress better. However, finally it seems that things are looking up. We have made an agreement to purchase land and will be finalizing it very soon. This is the plot of land we initially saw last year. The owner has agreed to allow us to complete payment over the next year. So, fundraising will be a huge priority! In the meantime, we have been granted permission to use a small church to conduct classes that sits at the base of the land that we will purchase. Some classes will be in the church, while others will be conducted outside until we have buildings built. Zambian schools are closed for the month of April, but we have stayed open to serve breakfast and lunch 3 days a week and have continued with choir and soccer. School will resume at the church building on May 6th. 



Designing the new school is very exciting. We have plans to build a school for the future. It is our goal to have the kitchen, bathrooms and administration building completed by November. We do not have a cost estimate yet, but we will start clearing and leveling the land next Saturday. We are researching alternative building methods and materials and plan to build a school that utilizes innovative, green technologies. We hope to be a model for other Zambian schools and homes. 

The next year will be very challenging, but also very exciting. Please follow our progress!

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Heartache

2/5/2013

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     While I love being here in Zambia and doing what we are doing, sometimes the heartache feels unbearable.  I feel this way, and then I remember that the heartache that I feel must be small compared to the people who live it everyday.
     People often disappoint. I can’t understand why adults pull the children that they are caring for out of loving learning environments and opt for environments where there are 80 kids crammed in a classroom, one small book shared by 3 students who are all crammed together at one small desk and a teacher with no supplies other than a few broken pieces of chalk.  Yet, some adults choose to do this.
      We have had a few families do this recently. It was 2 families who were initially upset because their children didn’t have sponsors yet. Ironically, after two of these kids were sponsored, the families forced the children to leave and go to a local Basic school. These schools are exactly as I described above. Additionally, they have no music, sports or technology. Children are in tears because they don’t want to leave Appleseed, one young lady even asked Mary if she could live with her instead of her big sister. Mary said, yes, while the sister said, no. I know that it is just a few adults who are making these choices for the kids that they are responsible for, and at the same time that this is happening, we have new families taking their children out of local Basic Schools and transferring to Appleseed, willing to pay fees because the see that there is a huge difference. Those who have pulled their kids, have never been to our school or attended any parent meetings. Regardless, we have become attached to these children. We have been witness to their physical, emotional and academic growth. We have come to love them. So, we will visit these few families this weekend to see the children and discuss with the families their reasons for transferring their kids. We hope that once they know what Appleseed can offer in terms of academics, that they will allow the children to return.
     Mary is also sad about this, but, she is quite used to this type of behavior from adults. She tells me, “Joy, there are so many children who need our services, and families who want it, you have to let these ones go.” But, it is more difficult for me. I have not yet become accustomed to accepting the plight of people here, keeping with the attitude that, “This is just life.”

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My sadness this morning is partially about these particular children, but it also goes deeper. As I said, Zambians are so accustomed to bad things happening, that they are much more accepting than I. 
I get angry. I am saddened and angered as I write this. I just received news that another person whom I have come to know and care deeply for, has passed away.
    Shelly was a nanny for a little girl on the block. She was also a St. John’s Home Health volunteer and just an all-around good lady. The average life span in Zambia is the 2nd shortest in the world. I’ve seen different statistics, but it hovers around 48 years old. Shelly didn’t make it to that. She was 45. To me, the story of her death is an atrocity.
     Shelly had a stroke a few weeks ago. She was recuperating at home and we were working on getting a physical therapist to work with her.  Then, last week, she was having difficulty breathing. She contacted the family whom she works for and they did everything that they could to help. They got her to a hospital, where they were asked for $300. They paid it and Shelly was admitted. Next, the hospital personnel said that she had to go to a different hospital for tests that could not be done where she was. Nothing is free here and transportation would have cost as well. Our friend Jim arranged for the St. John ambulance to pick Shelly up and take her to the other hospital. I learned today that the hospital has a “high cost” area and a “low cost” area. Shelly, evidently was in the “low cost.” Here, she did not have a bed or a room. When our friends, her employer, went to visit they found Shelly on the floor with no blankets. They quickly brought a mattress and blankets and spent all day yesterday with her. They were told that she had pneumonia and needed the basic antibiotic, erythromycin. But, unbelievably, hospitals do not provide medicine! At least not in the “lost cost” area.  SO, this morning, Jim sent a driver to the pharmacy to get the medication. Shelly had died by the time the medicine arrived.
     People should not have to live or die like this. In addition, people should not have to accept it as just the way it is. I know that Zambians do this as a means of survival. They cannot dwell, as it is their reality. I have come to realize as well, that when people stay in an environment for a very long time, they come to accept these things as well. I hope that I never become accustomed to this. While I can't imagine being numb to it, I know that it will be time to leave when I stop getting emotional and angry at these situations.


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Life for the Poorest Zambians is Harder Than Most of Us Can Imagine.

1/27/2013

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While we love going home to California to visit friends and family, it is always difficult to leave our friends and students at Appleseed. Life for the poorest Zambians is harder than most of us can imagine, yet they are so very accepting of their situations. We returned to find many changes, both good and bad. 

The first thing we were told was that our student, Lucky, had been ‘sent back the village.’ Lucky’s mother died last year and he had been staying with an aunt and uncle in Bauleni. The uncle decided that he did not want to care for Lucky anymore, so he put him on a bus and sent him to other relatives, over 8 hours away. At the time, Lucky was told that he was going for a visit, but when he arrived he was told that he would not be returning to Lusaka. He cried and told them that he is supposed to be in school. Our hearts are breaking for this young man. He had never attended school before he began at RHO Appleseed. He was learning and thriving. He was happy. He loved helping around the school and with the smaller children. We are told that he has made a call to his uncle, asking to come back. The uncle said no. Since then, two of our teachers, John and Vincent, who are also double orphans, still living with relatives, have said that they would like to get a place and take Lucky in. These men are so very kind and we believe that this would be the best thing for Lucky. We have approached the aunt and uncle with this idea. They have agreed, but as of yet, have not gotten word to the relatives in the village. We are holding Lucky’s sponsorship money in hopes of getting him a bus ticket back to Bauleni and moved in with Teacher John and Teacher Vincent. We will not give up on getting him back. Vincent has an uncle who works for Child Welfare and we will go through the proper procedures to have Vincent or John designated as his legal guardian. We worry, though, about his spirt being broken in the mean time. We hope that he knows that we love him and are doing what we can to get him back to school. It is times like these that we wish we had our own property with student dorms.




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Our groundskeeper, Masau, is facing hard times as well. Upon returning, he told us that his wife, Joy, is very sick. At first, the doctor said that she had Malaria. This is a common diagnosis, often diagnosed without actually testing for Malaria. When she did not respond to the very powerful Malaria medicine, they did a pregnancy test. She is about 9 weeks pregnant, but still extremely ill. Two nights ago, Massau woke up in the middle of the night to find her unconscious. He frantically tried to find a taxi to transport her to the hospital. He has no car and had no money, as he had spent it all on her previous medical care. The next day, Friday, he called and told us of his situation. He was back at his home with his boys, but had no way to get back to the hospital to be with his wife. Before taking him to the hospital, Ken took him shopping for food for his wife, as the hospital does not provide any. When Ken saw her he said she looked very sick; in fact, he did not recognize her. She has since been released, but unfortunately, this does not mean that she is better or out of the woods. Masau and his wife have 2 young boys and care for their nephew as well. We are very worried about Masau and his family. Please keep them in your thoughts.





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.... and more. The young man, Lameck, who we hire once a month to help us carry the food that we buy in bulk at Soweto Market, told us that his 23 year old wife died over the holiday. Lameck has 3 children, ages 2, 4 and 6 years old. Two girls and a boy. We asked him who is caring for them while he is here, lugging our food around in his rented wheel barrel. He replied, ‘The neighbors look out for them.’ When I hugged him and said how sorry I am, he replied, “It happened.” 
Lameck is from South Africa, all of his and his wife's family is there. He feels so very alone here. He can not go back to South Africa right now as it is a very expensive trip for a family of 4. We have discussed the idea of him moving to Bauleni so that his kids can attend Appleseed, as they are not in school. When we can, we will employ him to help Masau. 




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