Three young women, Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett and Amanda Pressner, escape their stressful NYC jobs to lose themselves in the world around them. Sharing the story of what they found, they penned a travel memoir
called The Lost Girls.
The Lost Girls’ lives are changed after participating in Village Volunteers’ partner program at Namunyak Maasai Welfare in Kenya. Publisher Harper Collins offers a sneak preview of the prologue which opens with passages about Village Volunteers’ ever-inspiring partners, Emmanuel and Lillian Tasur. Click the book cover (right) to read about the experience!
FROM THE LOST GIRLS’ BLOG…
Before the book, there was the blog where friends and fans could read adventures in near real time – internet permitting. The following posts were two of several written about Kenya. We offer bits here and suggest following the links to each full story.
It Takes A Village: part 1
April 4th, 2007
A big motivation for going on this RTW trip was to learn about how other people live. And since we’ve been blessed by being born in middle-class America, we wanted to donate some time and money to a good cause. What better way to accomplish both than to volunteer?
Jen surfed the net and found Village Volunteers, a nonprofit based in Seattle that offered a program helping children at a rural school outside of Kitale, Kenya. We chose it because it was more affordable than some of the bigger volunteer organizations, worked in partnership with international villages for sustainable development projects and seemed like it’d provide lots of hands-on interaction with the locals. What really sold us, though, was the contagious passion of founder Shana Greene when she spoke about Village Volunteers’ mission of helping villages help themselves.
It Takes a Village: part 2
January 28th, 2008
As many of you know, Jen, Amanda and I volunteered in Kenya through a program called Village Volunteers, and this is a classroom at Pathfinder Academy, a school where we lived in huts and worked with the children. Recent elections in Kenya have triggered violence between the different tribes, volunteers…
For more about their experiences, read more posts from The Lost Girls on Village Volunteers and Kenya.