July 13, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 15 Wyckoff From July 22 through Aug. 1, Wyckoff’s Cathy Newman, will join several area residents on a mission to to Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve. Newman is a pediatric clinician with Valley Home Care. She recived her BSN from Boston College and earned her MSN from East Carolina University. This will be her second trip to Kenya with the Maywood Rotary Kenya Project. The group of volunteers will build pre-school and kindergarten classrooms for children at the Nkenijii School, which provides education to about 300 Maasai children from ages five to 16. The mission also aims to provide Woman to visit Kenya as part of Rotary project medical treatment for the children in the school. This trip is being sponsored by the Maywood Rotary Club. This project is the fifth Maywood Rotary Club volunteer trip to Kenya run by Eustace and Williams, along with their son Carey, a student at Bergen County Technical School who started the Maywood Rotary Kenya Project in 2003 – when he was just eight years old. Previously, the duo led a group of volunteers to the Empopongi Elementary School, about 45 minutes away from the Nkenijii School. At the Empopongi School, this stalwart group of volunteers built classrooms and libraries, provided school supplies and nutritious food for the children, and supplied Cassandra Ondich will exhibit her work at the Wyckoff Family YMCA, 691 Wyckoff Avenue, in Wyckoff through July 22. Ondich, a Hartford Art School graduate, received her BFA in illustration. She studied under illustrators Dennis Nolan, Bill Thomson, Doug Andersen, and Murray Cassandra Ondich to exhibit at the Wyckoff Y Tinkelman. Currently, she is a creative recruiter for a graphics staffing agency in New York City. The exhibit is open to the public during regular business hours. Ondich’s work in acrylics will be for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Wyckoff YMCA. uniforms for all of the students, a prerequisite for attending school in Kenya. One of their biggest accomplishments was digging a well at the Empopongi School, thus providing safe and drinkable water to the school’s students and nearby village residents for the first time without having to walk more than several miles to retrieve it. In Kenya, clean water can save more lives than three full time doctors. Volunteers for this project come from all parts of northern New Jersey. Among the local residents is Bonnie Sirower of Glen Rock and Maywood Mayor Timothy Eustace. For more information on helping to build and help the Nkenijii School in Kenya, or to become part of the volunteer corps visiting next year to install a water pipeline, visit www.MaywoodRotaryKenyaProject.org. To follow the day-to-day progress of the volunteers, visit the website and select “2011 Volunteer Trip Diary” from July 22 through Aug. 1.