African Potato Balls

While we were in Africa, the Koins for Kenya organization turned over four schools to the villagers which they helped fund. It was fun to drive into the villages because hundreds of smiling children would meet us and run along side the vans singing, "We would like to say welcome to you. Welcome, welcome here." We felt like rock stars with hundreds of adoring fans!

Once we got out of the vans they would grab our hands and lead us to see their new schools that their parents helped build. In one of the villages called, Dzavani, a school was donated called the Austin Frampton school. This was a very special school because a twenty year old man named Dallin Frampton who couldn't decided what to do with his life heard about Koins for Kenya and decided to raise the money to go to Africa and build a school in honor of his ten year old brother, Austin, who has Down's Syndrome.

Dallin went to Kenya in March and has lived there in the village in a mud hut he built with his pet monkey, Matow, and worked along side the villagers to build the new school. One of the things Dallin did to raise the $10,000.00 it cost to build the school, was to have a concert where he played his guitar and sang. One of his good friends named Sophie Rose Barton had the voice of an angel and helped him with the concert. She died this June up at Heber Valley Girls Camp, so the family helped Brayden brand a rose onto each one of the desks he made to go to that school.

It was a very emotional, special day for the Frampton family. Dallin especially had a hard time because the school children kept singing songs, saying, "Please don't leave," because they love him so much.

When we got back to the Koins Center that night, the cooks made us these yummy potato balls. I made them for my family and they loved them. We decided next time we are going to put eggs, sausage and cheese in them and make breakfast balls.

African Potato Balls

Grate some potatoes and make them into balls. You may need to add a tiny bit of water to make them stick together. Then poke a hole into the ball and add some cooked hamburger. Then seal up the hole and roll the ball in a bowl with a beaten egg. Add a little salt and some pepper then fry them in hot oil until they are golden brown.