2021 Hometown Heroes

2021 Hometown HEROES Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS May 27, 2021 Page 23 Students regularly visited Barb O’Donohue at her house on the grounds of Tapadany Academy where they shared food, fellowship and learned important lessons about friendship, faith and life. CONTINUED u B arb O’Donohue’s service to humanity perhaps holds the furthest reaching, most dramatic community impact. O’Donohue connected local hearts to the lives and needs of an uneducated African tribe. The nomadic Pokot people were relegated by government to live in undeveloped drought-stricken land in Kenya. The Pokot resources for survival were negligible and their experience in homesteading in place, nil. Barb O’Donohue By Angela Reiners with contributions by Dr. Paul Boatman