Bright Star School and Orphanage

Ways to help


More than $800 per month is spent for maize and beans for the children's lunch.


Thirty dollars will buy a slice of bread for each of our 475 students.  Add $20 for butter.

 


Twenty dollars will buy a banana or an orange for each student.

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Mary Grace and Charlo have TB and are getting the medical care they need.  If you would like to donate to our medical fund to help other children, please send your check to:

Bright Star Foundation
3663 Meadow View Dr.
Kokomo, IN 46902

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Our Form 3 (11th grade) was in desperate need of reference books for Literature class.  Each book costs $7.50 and we needed forty copies, one for each student in the class.  The total was $300.  Thank you, Dean, for buying these books for us.  What a wonderful gift.

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Thanks to Gordon Mendenhall, Half Price Books at Castleton in Indy has generously donated many boxes of books for our library.  Thank you, Half Price Books!   The USPS is now offering book rate shipping and the cost of sending a 35# box of books to Kenya is $170.  Alice Ream and her family generously provided the funds to send 3 boxes of reading books. 

The Western M.S. 7th graders have donated five boxes of wonderful books for Bright Star's library and have raised some money to help pay for the postage.  We still need money to ship these books over to Kenya.

Thanks to the Indiana State Reading Council and the Ream family, the books are on their way to Bright Star.
 

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You can purchase a copy of the picture on the right.  The picture was originally a photo taken at the school's gate by a friend during a visit to Bright Star.  Sarah chose the photo for a IUKokomo class project and painted it by computer.  The result is absolutely amazing.  As Myrna says, "The picture certainly says it all."  The picture is 9 1/2" x 15".  Pictures are $10; if you want it mailed to you, $3 has to be added for postage and the mailing tube.  All proceeds will be used for scholarships.

     Let me know how many you want!

Click on photo to enlarge

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You can contribute to our Scholarship Fund.  Our graduates are strongly encouraged to get additional training after high school graduation.  Some will go to college to become professionals.  Some want to pursue careers in hotel management, modeling, and Computer Science.  Others want vocational training in various fields.  Your donation to our scholarship fund will ensure that these young people get the education they need to be successful in life.
 

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Donate to our Dental Fund.