September 1st, 2010
Two separate fundraising functions in Massachusetts garnered , $30,000, the much needed cash to repatriate bodies of two Kenyans for burials in their motherland. The two were closely connected to the Boston community.
In Lowell, several dozen Kenyans, joined the family of the late Elam Mburu, a homeless Kenyan who passed away recently, in a last minute effort to raise needed funds after an initial funds drive that took place last Saturday failed to meet the target.
Meanwhile, in Worcester, at a second fundraising which took place at the same time, several hundred Kenyans joined efforts and raised over $20,000 to repatriate the body of the late Thomas Kamau Kinyanjui, a former Boston resident who passed away in Manitoba, Canada after a short illness.
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Is there anything you think can be done in the search for a common, unifying solution, that would be acceptable by the majority of the members of the Kenyan community in the Diaspora that would take care of a member who passes away without life insurance, yet you have to bury them regardless?
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August 26th, 2010
- A Kenyan, Peter Waiganjo, marries a Zambian, Clarice Mhango in Lowell, Mass.
African partners in marriage have been advised to dwell on the virtues that will drive their marriages to success instead of concentrating on the challenges that may threaten or shake the sacred institution of love, while at the same time, becoming a brethren’s keeper to avoid growing homelessness while in a distant land.
In a sermon that largely emphasized on the integral role of an African man as the head of family in a contemporary western world, two African pastors urged the Christian society to uphold and respect the sanctity of marriage as per the teachings of Christ.
While presiding over the unification ceremony in the holy matrimony between a Kenyan young man Peter Waiganjo, and his beautiful bride, Clarice Mhango from Zambia, Pastor Kimohu (Saint Stephen church, Lowell ) and Pastor Mumbui Karimi (Ushindi church Lowell ) referred to the colorful wedding as a perfect recipe for love brewed in an African pot.
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