Allen Consulting

10/14/2026

Find a Need. Find a Hurt. Find a Problem.

Sylvia Allen explains the inception of Sylvia's Children. SylviasC...

09/09/2026

Labor Day: Double Meaning

Monday, September 7 was an official holiday...Labor Day. In Uganda, Africa, it was another Labor Day as Sylvia's Children started digging post holes to erect the fence surrounding the three acres, which will be used for the Community Health and Wellness Center! We are now an official Ugandan nonprofit and are thrilled to be starting this new project. The photo below is not exactly how it will look, but it gives you an idea of the type of fence it will be.

Our goal with the clinic is to have self-sustaining businesses. Identified by the Ugandan team are coffee trees … 500 … and selling healthy well water. One of the lots already has 200 trees although they are a bedraggled because there has been no significant rain so all we have to do is plant another 300. These will be seedlings and will take two years to grow before a crop can be harvested. If we can save the 200 trees, we could harvest one crop as early as next year. Basically, the plan is to have additional revenue besides the patient income.

Once the fence is completed, we will dig the well and plant 300 coffee trees. The point is to have a self-sustaining business to help support the clinic and make it independent. Currently, there are another 200 coffee trees of 500 coffee trees with two harvests a year. By having the well, where members of the community can buy safe water, we also have a water source that will tide us over during times of drought.

There will be four of us going to Uganda November 5-18, during which we will meet with our Ugandan trustees, visit the site, and outline the plans for the coming year. In addition, we will put on a Christmas party for the children at the Mustard Seed School … they have never had one! Every child will get a “goody” bag with sunglasses, mardi gras beads, candy, a mirror, stickers, pencils, and maybe a kazoo! In addition, we will have Christmas Cake, a wonderful meal of meat and rice plus a soda, AND the children will see Santa and Mrs. Claus!

It will be a wonderful trip ending with two days at the Mweya Safari Lodge to get ready to come back to the United States. The weather is always 60 to 80 degrees EVERY day, and of course we get to see elephants, hippos, and lions. We spend our final days there just enjoying the beauty of the country.

You can help us build this clinic.

Go to www.sylviaschildren.org/donate and select how you want to help us make this wonderful project a reality. It is a model that will be a replica table and will change the healthcare environment in third- and developing-world countries. (And remember, it is all tax-deductible!). Please consider helping make a difference.

09/08/2026

Who IS Sylvia Allen, and how did Sylvia's Children get started?

Take a moment to watch Sylvia Allen speak for herself about who she...

08/17/2026

This is a barn quilt! And, you might ask, what is a barn quilt? It is a wooden structure with triangles and squares that you mount on a board and put on your barn! My friends Beth Kuiken and Paul Kuiken in Aitkin Minnesota, cut all this out for me, and they very kindly said, "Would you like to paint some of the squares? I said I would love to! I painted the black ones! I’ll bring the triangles and squares back and go and get a 2 x 2 piece of plywood from Lowe’s or Home Depot or something and put this up on the carriage house. If you want to really see a ton of barn quilts, go on Amazon and type in barn quilts!

08/15/2026

Sylvia’s Children has a generous donor who has pledged to match every donation, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000!

This is an incredible opportunity to make your gift go twice as far and help us maximize this generous matching challenge.

Will you consider making a donation today? Every gift, no matter the size, brings us closer to unlocking the full $25,000 match and making an even greater difference in the lives of the children we serve.

Thank you for helping us make the most of this extraordinary opportunity! ❤️

https://sylviaschildren.org/donate/

08/11/2026

In the photo where you see me at the lectern, that is Emily United Methodist Church Emily, MN, where I spoke at 8:30 on Sunday morning. I then dashed back to the lake, and that’s where you see the little food spread to greet 14 people who were coming up for a memorial service for my nephew Shawn. He wanted his ashes distributed up here near grandma. The third picture with the audience is Pine Lake Chapel, where, once again, I spoke about Sylvia's Children. It was an unbelievable, fully packed day that had absolutely perfect weather. I am ecstatic still being here at the lake, even though there have been glitches and bumps.

08/09/2026

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08/03/2026

On Sunday, August 2nd, I was the featured speaker at Aitkin United Methodist Church – again! They are always so kind and so generous to allow me to share what we are doing in Africa with Sylvia's Children. They also have the spectacular stained glass window that I wanted to share with you. It has been 53° in the morning, but by noon it warms up to the mid-80s, so – so far, so good.

07/29/2026

My annual trip to the Minnesota Woods — this is of the lake when having breakfast in the dining porch. Everyone asks me what I do at the lake? Well, the refrigerator had died so that has to be fixed; the kitchen has flooded because two outside drains had not been cleared so that had to be taken care of; a person who used the house had the kerosene lamps on too high, so all the chimneys have to be washed… Not counting mopping the floor because water came in because of the clog drains or removing all the little mouse nests! In spite of all this it is so wonderful and peaceful to be here and when we have a south wind, the house stays very cool… So glad to be able to come here.

06/30/2026

Peaceful and serene in Holmdel, NJ.

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