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Experience a little bit of Kenya

Dream Sponsors is holding its largest fundraising event since its formation in 2006 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 7 at Whole Foods Market, 2635 U.S. Highway 441.

The Wellington based group helps sponsor orphans in Kenya providing them with the necessities, such as food, shelter and education. The event will feature a sampling of Kenyan culture with coffee, tea, wine, appetizers, artwork, crafts, photography and jewelry. There will also be music and dance performed by the group Positively Africa. Admission is $10.

The group currently sponsors 11 children and founder Carla Neumann said it takes about $1,000 a year to meet each child's needs. So far the group has raised about $25,000 since its inception.

Palm Beach Central High School's Interact club has sponsored one child through Dream Sponsors for the past 3 years.

"The Dream Sponsors is one of our biggest events. We've held a bunch of car washes," said President of Interact Senior Samantha Yorke. "We've adopted one of the little girls. Now she's at the top of her class. It's really cool to be able to change someone's life so much."

Before Palm Beach Central's Interact adopted the 8-year-old she had nothing, Neumann said. In fact, she had never even owned a pair of shoes. But despite having no shoes, the girl walked back and forth two miles each day to school in her bare feet.

Visit www.dreamsponsorsinc.org for more information about the organization.

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Jason Parsley has covered Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and the surrounding areas since January 2008. Before that he covered East and West Boca.

He lives in Lake Worth with his partner of 8 years along with Juno, his cat, and Cutie, his Iguana.

He graduated from Florida Atlantic University where he worked for the student newspaper and won several state, regional, national, and professional journalism awards.

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