FOOD SECURITY - BULINDA FAMILY

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/south-seattle-plant-program-helps-immigrants-refugees-put-down-roots/

C0- CHAIR Jane Bulinda KENYA

C0- CHAIRS MISSIONARY PROTAS AND JANE BULINDA KENYA

USA CO-CHAIR MARY BULINDA- SEATLE WASHINGTON

CO-CHAIR BISHOP JOHN BULINDA SEATLE WASHINGTON

1. THE PROBLEMS -

A. USA AND AFRICA EXPERIENCING FOOD SHORTAGES

7 counties in Kenya face food insecurity. https://reliefweb.int/report/kenya/kenya-ipc-food-security-nutrition-snapshot-acute-food-insecurity-february-june-2022

B. EDUCATION CHARLESTON COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT

1. SCHOOL FAILURE RATE GRADES 3-8. According to Charleston County School Superintendent Donald Kennedy, 51% of our all 3rd through 8th graders are reading below grade level. 75 % of students in poverty are reading below grade level. 81% of Black students read below the poverty level. This is a national problem.

2. School to Prison Pipeline. Black people constituted 29% of state residents, but 53% of people in jail and 60% of people in prison are black. . Since 1970, the total jail population has increased by 251%. In 2015, pretrial detainees constituted 70% of the total jail population in South Carolina. The state of South Carolina has failed to live up to the principles upon which this country was founded.

The Bulinda Agricultural Project Kenya/USA could help. Chaired by Bishop John Buinda and Mary Bulinda in Seatle, Missionary Protas Bulinda and Jane Bulinda in Kenya, and Howard Comen and Michelle Comen in Charleston hope to move forward with a pilot program to make communities self-sufficient while introducing young people to careers early in their education journey. We hope to expand these programs worldwide.

This effort develops a new future for our young people by introducing them to career possibilities in both Middle and High Schools beginning with Music and Agriculture adopting a S.T.E. A. M. Education System. (STEM education is the intentional integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics, and their associated practices to create a student-centered learning environment in which students investigate and engineer solutions to problems, and construct evidence-based explanations of real-world phenomena with a focus on a student’s social, emotional, physical, and academic needs through shared contributions of schools, families, and community partners.)

2. THE VISION

Music- the uniting force to bring students toward excellence. Bringing Rev. Daniel Jenkins 1891 dream to solve the 2022 situation. Rev Jenkins Jenkins Orphanage Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNrwnYGD4M ; -

3. SOLUTION

Young people need to be made aware of future careers as early as Middle School. Classes should be divided into houses based on the college concept of grouping students into a number of career pathways - Teaching, Medical, Manufacturing/Business, Space/Science, Computers/Cyber Security/ etc. Practitioners from these career fields should be added to the curriculum in lectures.

An example of an Agricultural House would be to develop a garden in association with Missionary Protas Bulinda in Kenya, two Nairobi former Mayors we have worked with before, and Protas's twin brother Bishop John Bulinda in Seatle. Gardens would feed the communities and make the project self-sufficient. Plants from Africa would be included here.

4. AGRICULTURE- THE WAY TO FEED OUR COMMUNITIES AND ESTABLISH TIES BETWEEN KENYA, SEATLE, AND CHARLESTON

BULINDA U.S., KENYA AGRICULTURAL EXCHANGE PROJECT

A model program hopefully will spread throughout Africa and the USA

Hello brother Howie Comen It's my pleasure to hear from you once again. My sincere gratitude too for your positive focus on humanity. My twin brother Bishop John Bulinda and I wish to sincerely thank you for your great spirit towards humanity.

We appreciate your great concern, especially towards the less fortunate in our society.

I wish to express our gratitude to you for mentioning some of the areas that need urgent help in our community.I want to specifically highlight the area of food security. As you well know my twin brother Bishop John Bulinda and I have both the same burden in most areas, especially as church Ministers.

In my country Kenya, we have a serious challenge on food security. There is a great problem in many families where most live on meager food mainly attributed to poverty. Specific attention is to widows and orphans. As soon as most breadwinners pass on, most widows and orphans undergo serious food shortages, in some cases, the children drop out of school. We have come up with a survey and seen that these calamities can be resolved with organic farming which is health-friendly. One way we can assist through our project is to train young people to grow their own food and raise poultry. We even hope to raise fish.

What we seriously lack is financial support. As ministers of God, we also help orphans by providing food, clothing, and health care. There are much more that we need to share if we could get help in this area Howie. Kindly let us know if we could get well-wishers to support these programs to enable us leave our environment better than we found it. God bless you.

Missionary Protas Bulinda with two African Notables We have worked with before. Professor Nathan Kahara and Dr. Aketch, who former Nairobi Mayors. They now have an international group of former Mayors. Prof Kahara's daughter works for the UN. I have asked Protas to bring them into our efforts. We are also intouch with David Erenkrantz from Pennsylvania. https://www.kenccid.org/family-member/david-ehrenkrantz/

Bishop Bulinda https://fox2now.com/news/kenyan-bishop-travels-to-ferguson-with-message-of-peace/