DAY 3: Arrival in Moyo and ready to distribute shoes
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 greeted warmly by the [...]
Day 2: Near misses and can’t-hold-it-breaks on the road to Gulu
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 look as we passed [...]
Day one (and-a-half): The CPAP ‘bomb’ and my squishy green pillow
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 of the travel weariness, [...]
AFA receives $3,556 from ‘Shoe Carnival’ at Boyd Middle School
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 about the Amy For [...]
By the numbers with AFA’s Amy Compston
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. Here’s a look at [...]