Dream Sponsors, Inc.

Making Dreams Come True… For African Orphans and At-risk Youth

Question: Why did you want to get involved with Dream Sponsors? How has it impacted you?

Answer: I am interested in getting involved with any company with as honest ideals as Dream Sponsors. Selling bands has given me, as well as other students, awareness of both the incredible lives we live as first world citizens, and the immense struggle that is unanimously present in other countries. Closing the gap between those two societies is an amazing goal that dream sponsors has.

Dream Sponsors, Inc. teamed with 4 Africa Now during a private Jewelry Party at the home of Lynne Mesmer, President of 4 Africa Now. The fun-filled afternoon benefited the mission of both organizations. Attendees learned more about the work of both groups and items sold benefited the missions of both organizations. 4 Africa Now benefits the remote tribes of Africa including Zulu in South Africa and African Maasai tribes of Kenya. Dream Sponsors, Inc. provides basic needs and school fees to needy Kenyan orphans. Both organizations are based in Wellington, Florida.

Save the Date NOW!!! February 7, 2013 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm both groups will team up again to provide a fun-filled evening of African entertainment, featuring crafts and jewelry from Africa at The Player Club in Wellington!!!
Don’t miss the fun! Stay Tunes….More Details to follow!!!!

As summer comes to an end and the excitement of a new school year kicks in, consider doing something different this year and sign up to be part of Dream Sponsors Band Up Fundraiser!

You can help us raise funds to sponsor a child by collecting contributions in the amount of $5.00 or more to receive a complimentary single wrist band. Members of several school clubs in Florida and Pennsylvania have raised enough money via our Wrist Band Fundraiser to sponsor an orphan for a full year. These school club members then receive periodic updates on the child they sponsor and really learn how their work benefits a child in need.

The Board of Directors of Dream Sponsors, Inc. recently appointed Susan Otuma of Bunyore, Kenya the newly created position of Lead Project Coordinator.  The organization has been operating with volunteer support only with the volunteer leadership of Otuma, since it was founded in 2006.  She is well respected as a natural leader in the rural community in which she lives and works.  She has worked in several different capacities and has over 15 years experience teaching computer technology in various college academic settings, including Devonshire College of Accountancy,  the Christian Touch Centre and Kima International School of Theology.  Otuma is passionate about the organization’s mission and ensuring that the needy orphans receive their basic and school needs to ensure they have what is needed to realize their dream of a successful future.  She has developed a positive bond with relative caregivers, the children, teachers, health care professionals, the Kenyan Advisory Committee members and other community leaders.

In this new position as Lead Project Coordinator, Otuma will oversee both the Nairobi based project and the rural project in Bunyore, and her responsibilities include assuring that best practice models are followed, implementing quality assurance strategies, networking with other NGO’s and humanitarian aid organizations in the region while building meaningful collaborative partnerships, expanding the mission and vision of Dream Sponsors, and working closely with the USA Board of Directors to increase fundraising efforts to eventually increase number of orphans sponsored.

All of us at Dream Sponsors are all extremely grateful to a local Wellington Rotarian, who generously offered to sponsor Otuma’s salary in order to make hiring our very first official employee a reality!

Tom Neumann of the Tom Neumann Insurance Agency was named Allstate’s Hand in Hand Contest winner from the Florida Region and his winning nonprofit is Dream Sponsors, Inc.  In honor of The Allstate Foundation’s 60^th Anniversary, the company provided a unique opportunity for their Allstate Agents and Exclusive Financial Specialists to give back even greater to their communities.  The contest encouraged agents to advocate for the nonprofit organizations of their choice, providing additional financial assistance to the nonprofits the agents care most about. Winners were randomly selected.  Dream Sponsors, Inc. will be awarded an additional $5000 contribution to help advance their mission to provide basic needs and school fees to needy Kenyan orphans, assisting them in making their dreams of a successful future a reality.

Neumann is a founding board member and has actively volunteered for the organization since its beginning in 2006.  He also serves as an active member of the Wellington Rotary Club, which has also been very supportive of the mission and vision of Dream Sponsors, Inc. In 2010, Neumann traveled to Kenya with his wife, co-founder and president,  and fellow board members for a site monitoring visit and personally witnessed the slum living conditions that the organization’s sponsored orphans endure.  One child was still healing from life-saving open heart surgery that was coordinated through the global networking of the Dream Sponsors Team.  “The life stories and dreams of these motivated children were very inspiring.  To them, the opportunity to go to school is golden and they will walk miles in their bare feet just to get there…on time”, Neumann stated.  “It was very humbling to see the deplorable tin and mud shacks in which these children live, while also visiting their overcrowded and often dilapidated schools.   The children expressed their gratitude in poems, dances and songs, knowing now, that they too, are “in good hands!”