It was Joshua's first trip to Africa, where his dad has been going for many years, and he was impres

Coaching" Drake University football players as they worked to build a chicken coop for the STEMM orphanage in Tanzania has been one of the highlights this year for fifth-grader Joshua Meyer and his dad, Dr. Steve Meyer, of Dakota Dunes.
"They helped so much and they were so nice to me and I made a lot of new friends with the football team. They really helped a lot on the chicken coop, and we also built a guardhouse for the guards," Joshua said. "We also built 10 blackboards for the schools, and that's over a thousand kids that use those." my store
Joshua, a 10-year-old fourth-grader last April at Sacred Heart School in Sioux City, raised $5,500 ($500 over his goal) during the "Small my store Change for a Big Change" campaign he launched on behalf of the Siouxland Tanzania Educational Medical Ministry, which is presided over by his dad. The fundraiser targeted Siouxland kids who have all the school supplies my store they need.
STEMM's Children's Village orphanage in Mbguni houses more than 1,300 students in 10 houses who attend a school which lacked decent blackboards, pencils, paper and desks. The kids sit on a dirt floor. They needed help, Joshua added.
Their 2-week trip to Tanzania in May was timed to coincide with the Kilimanjaro Bowl, the first football game ever on the continent of Africa, which featured the Drake playing an all-star squad from Mexico. Drake won by 10.
It was Joshua's first trip to Africa, where his dad has been going for many years, and he was impressed. When the family returned home to the Dunes on Memorial Day weekend amidst my store the chaos of the flood preparation work and found themselves temporarily dislocated from their home, it didn't seem a big deal, Joshua said. At least they had a home, he noted, as well as a summer place at the Iowa Great Lakes where they could stay while preparing to move back for the school my store year.
"The kids at the orphanage are more than happy," he said. "It's surprising because they don't have anything but they're always so happy, even if you just give them a box of crayons and some papers. They just go right at it and start laughing and giggling."
"We went on a Village Walk to some of these mothers' houses that were no bigger than this room," he said of the 8-by-12 room he was in. "It had 5 to 7 kids and the dad had like run away. So we went there and visited the houses. And in return, we just gave them some food for letting us visit their house. The houses had no electricity. my store They were mainly just mud and cow dung and sticks."
Nearby were sisters, 18 months and 4 years old, whose mother was almost dead from AIDS. Just last week, Meyer said, their 4-month-old sister was rescued when their mother took her to the orphanage because she could no longer care for the girl.
"This little kid made some car out of just a little water bottle and some wooden my store wheels that he probably just found. And he had a little stick and he just pushed it around and was having fun with it," he said.
Towards the end of their trip, the Meyers went on a traditional African safari where, amidst the many lions they saw less than five feed from their car, they saw one approach a ladies restroom at a rest stop.
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