The Path to Learning started in 2012.
Now that the wall is finished, the stones on the Path to Learning will be mounted on the inside wall.
The very first stones on the Path to Learning were mine and Ellen Galloway’s. Ellen has contributed her talents in helping to edit my book, “Hope Made Real,” due to be published very soon.
These stones are an example of how the entire wall will look. The stones will not be walked on.
What is the path? Well, it started and remains as a way to secure funding for education. The idea was -- and is -- that a $100 gift for funding education would result in a stone being added to the path in the donor’s name. Great idea.
Visitors liked the stone idea as a commemoration of their visits to Urukundo. Now it also is a memorial to those we have loved and have moved beyond the hurts of this life.
The fund and the path continue to grow. The path has gone from being a path to being a memory lane with plaques on the wall.
New wall space is available for stones. They can be in honor of, in memory or with love.
The originator of the idea of the Path to Learning was John Green, a fellow Christian from Saint John’s Newberry United Methodist Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA, and a former treasurer of Hope Made Real.