I visited a children’s home today. It is assisted in part by the Foundation for Peace (which we worked with in the Dominican Republic). It’s a really nice place in Ngong and the people who run it are really wonderful. It is a relatively new home and school but they are really beginning to expand and have aspirations to develop more. There are 18 children currently living there and most of them are total orphans (maybe 20% have one parent, but generally they live in a slum or are otherwise unable to care for their children). They have children in pre-school and kindergarten, 2/3rd grade and 5/6th grade at the moment. As they continue to build their school they will increase their child capacity and hope to become a full pre-school through 8th grade school. It was so much fun to see the work they are doing there and their excitement for what they hope to accomplish.
We mostly spent the entire day taking a few of the watoto to clinic for their monthly appointment. We did not arrive at the clinic until noon or so (after driving for about 45mins), so we were the last in line (with 30-40 people in front of us…almost entirely women and children). It took about 2hours for the children to be seen and another hour or so for them to receive their medications. We left around 3pm and commenced our, what seemed to me to be a very round-about, journey through town. We had to stop somewhere for something. I don’t really know what we were doing, but I think we drove for about 2.5-3hrs before we found our way back home. We probably really only had about 30mins of driving to do, but the jams lurking around every corner extended our travels considerably. At the sight of each jam as we turned corners, the one driving kept saying, “Ay, I shouldn’t have taken this road…” No problem, I like these kinds of adventures. I’ll be going back tomorrow to dig a hole.
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