Madi's Song: In My Dream (Wars Are Coming and Wars Are Going)

Madi Kloss, a 10-year old (!!) grade five student at Glenmore Elementary in Kelowna has released a song she wrote and performed for Niteo Kids.

This is an incredible and beautiful song by a very talented and gifted young musician. She wrote it during spring break and recorded it at her home.

Madi's hope is that anyone who listens to the song and enjoys it will consider donating to Niteo Kids.



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Eva Ruf Resource Center

video slideshow by Erika van Oyen

 

Kids Helping Kids

Quotes from Kids Helping Kids in Ugandan Schools
2007 African Senior Students:

[At St. James Primary School], "we stayed on the narrow paths which had to be followed otherwise one would fall in the large, shallow, dirt, filthy trenches crying with human wastes and rubbish itself. All these problems instilled in me more zeal to work very hard to help these pupils so that these problems, with time, would be addressed."
Asio Jacinta, Makerere College

"What was considered to be small monies have turned out to be big monies through the project by securing one o the world's most valuable treasures: climate." Senyonda Lawrence, St. Mary's High School

 

My thoughts...

This woman, this grandma... she represents to me the "Mightiest of Oaks." She was probably the most burdened, and yet the most optimistic African I met during my time in Uganda.

When I think of her I am reminded of her smile, which is one of my sweetest memories. It is ironic that where I met her and witnessing first hand the sad reality of her life represents the most distressing day of my trip to Africa.

To see the reality of the HIV epidemic was and remains devastating to me.

My hope for Africa, what fuels my passion and belief in the work of NITEO is that when this generation of grandparents, who have lost their own children to HIV/AIDS and are now thrust into the role of raising their grandchildren, die, I truly hope the children we invest in and nurture as leaders can begin to carry on and take over the responsibilities and burdens that these Grandmas currently bear. If there are no leaders prepared to take on that the responsibility what will happen then?

Donna Striha

"Stories make permeable the boundaries of our own and others' life experiences and enable the appraisal of these experiences."