European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Members of project Kenya Lay the footing fora cattle trough which will hold water piped in from a Well. Local Masai villagers look  help kenyans with pipeline project editor s note last month staff writer Rosemary Sawyer spent two weeks in Kenya with a group of americans involved in a humanitarian  Rosemary Sawyer staff writer Long after their Farmers tans have faded and their photo albums have been relegated to Coffee tables project Kenya participants say certain scenes will remain vivid in their minds for Brian Kirsch of Heidelberg West Germany it will be the memory of the Masai tribesman who stepped alongside him to help dig the Trench. Quot when that Guy came Over and started digging Quot Kirsch said Quot it showed me that they actually did care about this water  Luralee Dettori of Frankfurt will remember the Little boy lying Down drinking water from a Muddy Stream. Doctors had warned project Kenya workers not to even walk in such parasite infested Waters. The pipeline is a Start in helping that boy Dettori said. Yet it s a an overwhelming  Dettori and Kirsch along with 158 other american adults and teen agers from West Germany and Italy spent $1,275 each and two weeks time on a humanitarian project. They had travelled to Kenya to Lay a water pipeline for several Masai villages. The pipeline will help the pastoral Masai tribe people who had to walk nine Miles or More each Way for fresh Waler the project Kenya team was made up mostly of members and leaders of Quot club beyond Church youth groups. Youth for Christ and Young Lite stateside ministries and local chapels support the clubs in military communities in West Germany and Italy most of the participants raised a Large part of the Money through activities such As commissary bagging bake sales and car washes. Many Community and Chapel groups also contributed to the project. Participants in project Kenya said their Mission was to Quot get dirty Lor god Quot and that they did in 90-plus degree temperatures and sometimes less than Ideal conditions. The team strove to dig an 8-Kilomeler 5-mile ditch in which to Lay a water line but finished Only four Kilometres to the first water dispensing station the addition of this dispensing station shortens the distance the Masai people have be walk to i p a t cd. My water Quot i was disappointed that we did t  the h Kilometres yet i think we went As far As we could  Frankfurt teacher Joyce Dusenberry Quot i everybody fur the most part tried to work hard Quot More than once torrential evening Haiir  the ditch into a mud filled canal illnesses such Ainger diarrhoea and dehydration set in Early and so it Ted tin teens of not Only their strength bul also thou  Frankfurt International school student Jesmier i Lynn 16, shared some disappointment Quot there was so much leading up to it Quot i Lynn said but maybe the goal was set too High to begin with because that was a lot. I think everyone just worked very Haid. Tremendously hard it s just a great accomplishment any Way you look at it a despite the shortfall Frankfurt i Gigli school freshman Jennifer Blanck said she feels Good knowing Quot we re actually bringing water a Little closer to the people and their lives will be a Little bit better because of it Quot others looked at the accomplishment philosophically Quot i Don t eel that we failed Quot said Jamie Davis a continued on i a age 14 sunday May 20, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 13