We are safely in South Africa.  Uneventful flight. Paul slept 5 hrs and I slept about 3, worse than when I brought my 1 yr old. I must be too rested for the trip, as I usually sleep 6 or 7. Crazy. I may be meeting 2 classmates from Harvard. One just moved here [...]

Tags: forgotten voices, hope, pain, Ryan Keith, zambia, zimbabwe
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Greetings from JFK Airport in New York. Paul and I depart in less than 2 hours. We are excited and anxious to get started. Our flight will last 15 hours and 20 min if all goes smoothly, a direct flight from JFK to Johannesburg, South Africa. We will then jump on a short 2 hour [...]

Tags: forgotten voices, Ryan Keith, travel, zambia, zimbabwe
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A couple days ago my 21 month old daughter Avery and I were having breakfast together. She was reading her book about a daddy bear teaching his cub to climb trees, get honey, and find a den, while I read TIME magazine. I asked her what she was reading about. She pointed and told me [...]

Tags: action, Africa, aids, forgotten voices, hope, love, orphans, Ryan Keith, travel, zambia, zimbabwe
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Greetings from Ndola, Zambia. We arrived safely from Johannesburg, South Africa. As you may have seen from our website, blog, and Facebook account, a donor has generously challenged us to raise $22,000 while we are away, with the donor matching the gifts up to this amount. We are thankful for this person’s generosity. While here, we are [...]

Tags: #FVAfrica, farming
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To get to the room where Mercy, (now age 17), lives, I have to walk along a mud path, then go around to the back of the 2 bedroom cement block house, as the front half is seemingly used by another family. Even if I wasn’t tall, I watch my head and duck below a [...]

Tags: #FVAfrica, education, hope, orphan, Ryan Keith, vulnerable children, zimbabwe
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One of the themes that stood out to me from this most recent trip is missing fathers. About a week into our trip, I sat bedside next to a precious young girl who passed away shortly after I returned home. I prayed she would make it until I could see her again in October. This [...]

Tags: fatherhood, forgotten voices, HIV/AIDS, orphan, Ryan Keith, widow, work
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In church this Sunday morning, I realized I am about to take trip #20 to Africa since our ministry began. We leave this Tuesday through October 11. I am traveling with Ellen Shaffer, our Director for Project Management, and my father, Denis, a pastor at North River Community Church. Once there, we’ll link up with [...]

Tags: counseling, critical, forgotten voices, income generation, Ryan Keith, travel, Travels in Africa, zambia, zimbabwe
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Our partners in Africa are expressing significant concern for how we are doing with the recent earthquake, hurricane, and flooding that has rocked many of you in the United States. As they pray for us, I also know you all are prayerfully acting for them. Powerful things are happening, as we all join together in [...]

Tags: #FVIKeiths, ABUSE, children, church, community, Courage, flooding, forgotten voices, HIV/AIDS, orphans, Ryan Keith, service, storm, zimbabwe
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Two days ago, Forgotten Voices lost a friend: Vuyani (right in the pink). Many of you may remember us writing about Vuyani in the past, a beautiful young woman from Zimbabwe. A funeral service was held for her yesterday and she will be buried later this week. When I wrote you from Zimbabwe, I shared [...]

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Here, Ryan shares a lesson from the Keith family trip to Africa this summer, where Ryan spent 3 weeks in Zimbabwe with his wife, Katie, and 14 month old daughter, Avery. You can read all the lessons over the next couple weeks here on the blog. Lesson #2 from our trip is that we get [...]

Tags: #FVIKeiths, Africa, aids, children, community, education, forgotten voices, learning, Ryan Keith, service, ten together, volunteerism, zambia, zimbabwe
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