Nyanya Project

The first group of Rwandan grandmothers to be trained in basketmaking at Gahaya Links in Rwanda. Founder Mary Martin Niepold and Board member Virginia Weiler met the grandmothers on January 3.

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Dear Friends of Nyanya, We hope that you will hold our African families in your heart this holiday season. Click below to view our catalogue of ways that you can make a world of difference in their lives. From $4 to pay for one month’s day care fees to $40 for a sheep or $400 [...]

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Click here to listen to the Interview that was broadcast Friday, Nov. 20th on WFDD Voices & Viewpoints.

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Winston-Salem’s Mary Martin Niepold Honored as 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow for Innovation, Extraordinary Contribution in Encore Career Entrepreneurs Over 60 Win $50,000 – $100,000 Each for Using Creativity, Experience to Solve Long-Standing Social Problems Winston-Salem, N.C. – Mary Martin Niepold has been named a 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow, an honor for social entrepreneurs over 60 [...]

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Click here to visit Encore’s website page for The Nyanya Project. Click here to visit Encore’s website page for Mary Martin Niepold.

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Mary Martin met with the first four grandmother who were trained in Kibera slums in July.  It was their idea to have a day care center.  They will work there part time.  Their youngest orphans will attend free.  See two pictures below.  The center is called Raila Odinga Nyanya Pre-School Center and it is right [...]

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Nyanya featured in Longmont Daily Times-Call – Longmont,CO,USA Click Here to View

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Right Honorable Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga and Mary Martin Niepold in Africa.

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TNP founder Mary Martin Niepold wrote this monologue, “Fish for Sex,” to highlight how poverty drives the AIDS and orphan crises in Africa. Aleshia Price, Wake Forest University student, presented the piece in March.

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