According to club sponsor Kathy Hallett, the Kenya Club will be helping at the Kenya Carnival on September 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 N. Meridian St.

Rachel Aker, an organizer of the Kenya Carnival, said via e-mail, “The Kenya Club at Carmel is an awareness club where we learn about the high school students in Kenya that the Ken-Ya Help Us organization supports.”

Hallett said, “Students who come to the Carnival can help work or simply buy a game wrist-band and enjoy the fun. All proceeds from the event are going to support the mission work in Kenya.”

“People should come to the Kenya Carnival because it’s for such a good cause,” Aker said. “Also, the games and atmosphere are going to be awesome. The game that the Carmel Kenya Club will be volunteering at is sumo wrestling. People can dress up in sumo costumes and fight.”

According to Hallett, this is a student-run organization. “They have raised over $65,000 in the first three years of the Carnival, supporting funding for more than 100 Kenyan students to attend school,” Hallett said.

Aker said that she has been preparing for the Kenya Carnival since last year. “We have group meetings with kids from all over once a month on Monday nights to plan for the Carnival,” Aker said.

Hallett is very proud of what the students have been able to accomplish. “I’m very proud to be associated with this group of passionate students,” Hallett said. “They are willing to spend time, effort and money to help children in another part of the world.”