Northport Siblings Raise Funds For Students For 60,000 Trip To Kenya

NORTHPORT, NY — Northport siblings Lilly and Patrick Clements are raising money to support the trip they hope to make to Kenya as part of Northport High School's Students for 60,000 (SF60K), according to a news release. SF60K is a student-based organization that tackles global and local humanitarian issues and works to aid the needy and homeless.

Lilly, a senior, and Patrick, a junior, both work part-time jobs. They are working together to raise money to help pay for a mission to Kenya. The siblings have been around Northport Village selling baked goods and fundraising in order to cover expenses associated with this year's SF60K mission.

Funds raised by the Clements siblings will assist in paying for travel expenses and materials to build a school in Iviani, Kenya, as the group aims to improve learning conditions for the approximately 150 attending students.

The duo has set up a GoFundMe here.

"Every little bit counts and I'm so proud to see them working so hard to reach their goal," their mother, Phyllis Clements, said in a news release.

Lilly and Patrick hope to be able to travel to Kenya next spring where they will be working alongside the community of Iviani, which is located about five miles from Mitito Andei, a small community about halfway between Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya. This is an area inhabited by people from the Maasai and Kamba tribes. The people living in the Iviani area are hard-working, friendly and family-oriented, the Clements family said.

The normal household income is less than $3,000 per year. Living conditions are simple but challenging. Most families live in one or two room houses made of handmade mud bricks/wood and thatched roofs with kitchens and latrines located outside.