Sponsoring Street Youth to MITS

We are making a change in the way we handle sign-ups to be sponsors. From now on, Tim Lewis, who serves the street ministry in many ways, will take on keeping up relationships between students and sponsors. He will also be the one to sign up sponsors.

If you are interested in sponsoring one of the 9 new students in 2011 who do not yet have a sponsor, please write to Tim at

timannlewis@gmail.com

When you ask to be a sponsor, he will send you a name and a picture. Then you can immediately begin sending sponsorship funds in the amount of $75 monthly to

Made in the Streets

409 Franklin Road

Brentwood, TN 37027

Please send a note with your first check noting it is for sponsoring, and it helps if you give the name of your student. If you prefer to give another way, such as ONLINE (see the web site at www.made-in-the-streets.org ) or if you prefer to give a year at a time, or all at once, do so.

Soon after that you will receive from the Team in Nairobi some information about the student. From time to time you will receive a more current picture, an email or a letter from your student. From Tim or the Team you will receive major updates about your student's progress at MITS. If your student is 13 when entering MITS, you will be sponsoring for about 5 1/2 years. When a student reaches 18, we help him/her get a national identity card, when

sometimes takes 6 or more months. Meanwhile we help the student get in an internship at a business, get an apartment with another departing student, and remain involved in church life. About 3 months after a student gets a full-time job and begins receiving pay, we stop our support. So support can be needed 6 months or so after the planned time, depending on how long it takes for a student to become settled in life outside MITS.

Here is one of our new students who does not have a sponsor. Her name is Damaris, and this picture was taken the day she and two other girls came to Kamulu. She already looks different; if you sponsor her, you will get a new picture. Be blessed.