Spring 2023

Our students are very busy this term with drama festivals. In the pictures above, you can see the backdrops several students designed and painted. We loved getting to see their creativity! The children are also busy with sports competitions. They have been traveling to compete for both drama and sports, and we cannot wait to share how they do!

Life After Sam’s Place

We are so honored to provide an update about our five young adults who have finished their studies and are starting life on their own!

Irene studied tailoring and dress making at St. Joseph’s Technical and Vocational College for the Deaf. Sam’s Place helped her start her sewing business in the city of Homabay. We committed to supporting her business for a year to help her get started. Already eight months through that commitment, we’re confident that Irene will be able to stand on her own even before the year is complete!

Ruth also studied tailoring and dress making at St. Joseph’s. Sam’s Place helped her start her sewing business in the city of Rongo, which is about three miles from Sam’s Place. With the same commitment of support as Irene, Ruth is on track to be on her own in just a few months!

Elphas, Dickson and Hesbon studied carpentry and joinery at St. Joseph’s. Elphas and Dickson started their continuing education first and since graduating, they have trained under a mason. They are busy doing house construction. They are preparing to move to a woodshop, where the young men will start a furniture business. Hesbon recently joined them. Once they move into their shop, Sam’s Place will support them for a year to help them get started!

We are so very proud of these young men and women! They have come so far from when they first arrived as young children with little to no language and a bleak future. Due to your support and pouring into these young children, they have flourished into confident, skilled and kind young adults with amazing futures ahead of them! They are our first group to graduate, and they have paved the way for many more to follow!

Our Newest Additions

A New Film Takes Us to Sam’s Place

As the first months of 2023 continues on, a new film, A Day in the Life, takes all of us on a journey to Sam’s Place for a look at our children completing another year since the pandemic. Our youngsters enjoyed triumphs and success during a year filled with joy and satisfaction. Over the last twelve months, mission teams have traveled to  Sam’s Place and delivered important services for our children there. It has been a busy year with maintenance and repair problems solved, important educational missions for our children, a new science laboratory installed, and new teachers taking their place in our world class school. For the first time, our two new doctors spent time on the ground at Sam’s Place doing examinations, vaccinations, implementing

wellbeing procedures, and we hired a new Kenyan nurse to work on campus and liaison with our medical staff. Take time to watch this 27-minute film and travel across the globe to see our children and the world that they live in. Share the link with family and friends. Click here to board your flight to Sam’s Place in the far western bush country of Kenya.

How you can help:

We are so excited to share the news with you about our students entering the next phase of their education and would love your support! If you are interested financially supporting these students in their studies please email us at info@samsplacefoundation.org! We would love to connect with you and provide you with more details!

Sam's Place Foundation has no paid staff. All officers and staff are volunteers.

Sam's Place Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. To contribute to the ongoing work, contributions can be donated on our website or sent to "Sam's Place Foundation" at 1617 Morrow Lane Abilene, Tx 79601.