For the second year in a row, Monica Villars and her students at the Willmar Area Learning Center, in Willmar, MN teamed ambition, generosity, creativity & energy on behalf of the Ngatha International Childrens Homestead & Learning Center, in Ngamini Village, Kenya. Ngatha representatives, Professor Mumbi Mwangi, Njeri Clement, Beth Lewis and Tammi Joy Parsons [...]

“SPA DAYS”, Spring 2007: Ngatha International volunteers and SCSU students rented a room at the Atwood Center on the SCSU campus during finals week to help raise funds for the Ngatha International Children’s Home & Learning Center. A professional esthetician and massage therapist donated their time and talent to give inexpensive arm & hand massages [...]

Spring 2007: As a means of raising money for the Ngatha International Children’s Homestead & Learning Center in Ngamini Village, Kenya, U.S. volunteers lovingly made 3 types of gentle, 100% vegan handmade soaps to be sold in a gabled red box for Ngatha’s “SOAP FOR HOPE” campaign. Each box contains 1 soap bar entitled “Feel [...]

January 21st, 2007, several Ngatha International volunteers were blessed to spend some time with 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai, who spoke later that evening to a standing room only crowd in the Ritsche Auditorium at St. Cloud State University. A large overflow of people had to be directed to another campus facility [...]

December 9, 2006: A Silent Auction, our first ever fund-raiser, was devised and put together by St. Cloud State University students /Ngatha volunteers, in the Atwood Center on Campus. Attendees enjoyed snacks & beverages, were entertained by Kenyan dancers, as well as speeches from Ngatha International founder, Professor Mumbi Mwangi, her eldest daughter, Njeri Mwangi, [...]

August, 2007: Well it was a lot more than a mile, but many indeed managed to keep a smile. U.S. & Kenya Ngatha board members, volunteers, educators, staff, orphans living at the Ngatha International Children’s Homestead & Learning Center, and relatives walked from Ngamini Village to Ndaragwa to help raise money and awareness.

This summer Ngatha Board Member & Child Sponsorship Coordinator, Tammi Joy Parsons, Kara Hadley & Merissa Polzin travelled to Kenya to meet Professor Mwangi and the board members of Ngatha International (Kenya). Ngatha International is a registered non-profit corporation in the U.S. In order to assure cohesiveness and accountability with the mission and goals of [...]

Monica Villars & Ngatha’s Professor Mwangi In 2007, teacher Monica Villars and high school students at the Area Learning Center in Willmar, MN wanted to learn more about Kenya and do something to help the orphan’s at the Ngatha International Children’s Homestead & Learning Center in Ngamini Village, as well as children in surrounding villages. [...]