AFA team members wash feet and distribute shoes on Friday. Amy with AFA's new goat. Amy dancing with joy at AFA's welcome to Panyanga. By MARK MAYNARD / AFA PANYANGA, Uganda - WOW! Putting the Amy For Africa Mission to [...]
Mission to Moyo team By MARK MAYNARD / AFA MOYO - It is an interesting team that was put together for the Amy For Africa Mission to Moyo trip, which enters Day 5 on Friday. Here's a little insight into what each member has [...]
Thursday was the day we'd been waiting for since leaving Ashland on Sunday morning. It was the day we would begin changing the outlook of villages in Moyo, Uganda. We did it with a pair of shoes and an extra large helping of God's love. These [...]
By MARK MAYNARD / AFA Four words this traveling group has been waiting to hear since leaving Sunday morning came to fruition on Wednesday: We are in Moyo. The Amy For Africa team took the 6-hour journey from Gulu to Moyo on Wednesday morning and were [...]
Day 2 on the Amy for Africa Mission to Moyo is complete. It was a day of travel through Kampala, Uganda's largest city with 5 million population. Traffic was a nightmare. The highly congested city has four stop lights. That's right, four. It was an eye-opening [...]
MARK MAYNARD / AFA Eighteen hours on three airplanes, another six hours waiting in airports, a battery for a CPAP machine that looks like a homemade bomb and missing my squishy green pillow. That about sums it up so far. No matter how much you're told [...]
SUMMIT — Can you make a difference in your community? How about a community 7,000 miles away? The Gifted and Talented students at Boyd County Middle School did a little of both this week. After listening to Amy Compston speak to them a few months ago [...]
Amy Compston before taking the bus ride to the starting point of the 2015 Boston Marathon. By MARK MAYNARD / AFA BOSTON — The 119th Boston Marathon is history and history-making for Amy Compston, who ran her fastest marathon ever – by 25 seconds. [...]
By MARK MAYNARD The Daily Independent It wasn’t exactly ideal weather for running, but that’s never stopped Amy Compston. The marathon runner from Ashland — and the face behind the Amy For Africa mission — still managed to set a personal record during the 119th running of [...]