• The 130 Children were given only 1/4 a cup of corn each school day.  Often it was their only meal that day. 
• Few children had decent clothes or the school uniform required by Kenyan Law. No children had shoes.
• Students had to walk up to two miles to a dirty stream to carry a bucket of water back to the school.  Many children got very sick from the polluted water.
• Two small classrooms with leaky tin roofs were the only school rooms for all the children from kindergarten to 8th grade.
• The children had to relieve themselves in the bush as they had no latrines or bathrooms.
• They were few or no textbooks, pens, pencils or readers.
• The student's parents were required to give money to build classrooms, provide books and uniforms but the nearest employment is 80 miles away.

   Corey thought it was unfair that children just like him had so much less than he did.  He was determined to do something about it ,so, when he went home to his school in Maywood New Jersey; he went classroom to classroom collecting donations for this one little school.  He collected $1,495.00! That was the start of the Maywood Rotary Kenya Project.