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Sue Anne (right) with her daughter, Joy[/caption]Sue Anne Fairman spent 25 years in Kenya as a PCUSA missionary. She also volunteered several days a week for 14 years at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Mathare. Upon her return to the US, Sue Anne spent 10 years working for the New Wilmington Mission Conference in New Wilmington, PA, and is now retired.After living 25 years in Kenya, after driving and walking the streets and alleys of Mathare Valley when I volunteered at Mother Teresa’s Home there, but especially after having an adopted granddaughter, Imani, from that home, I heartily support the work of eduKenya! No one can experience the sights, sounds and smells of the Mathare slum and not be changed by those experiences. To see children in tattered clothes, living in make-shift houses of tin and cardboard, smelling the raw sewage and garbage that runs along those streets, forever remains in my mind. And yet, those same children exhibit such joy when they are given attention and love and opportunity to learn. Education is truly a gift to a child of the slums; without that they have no chance at all for a decent future and life.I commend Adam Gould and Bob Kikuyu for their vision of helping to lift a child, one by one, out of their bleak futures, into a life of hope and dreams. That was Mother Teresa’s motto also. Had she never lifted the first one, she never would have lifted all those many thousands who came later. And she always said “Come and see.” I know that is what eduKenya is also offering to people in the USA in their vision trips.I urge people to take advantage of an upcoming vision trip to go and see and hear from the children and families that are involved with this vital ministry!Sue Anne and other eduKenya Partners for Hope provide children and their families living in the Mathare slum the opportunity to break the cycle of extreme poverty and transform their lives. Stay tuned for more Partner for Hope reflections!