This past week we visited Sacred Heart Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. We visited them last year and found the kids just as inquisitive this time. A few of the students from last year requested to come and hear this presentation, one student even asked about the school building he had seen in pictures and wanted to know how the progress was going. We had to tell them there had been no progress on the building since then because of lack of funds.
However it wasn’t all depressing news…the students asked about the types of food we ate, where we lived and other questions along this line. They liked hearing Chuck’s stories and the different experiences we had – snakes, guards, bugs, and rhinos and so many more that I finally had to point at the clock to stop the stories!
After the stories were done the teacher, Lori (who organized this presentation), told us the kids had started an “Afri-Can” (a can to hold donated change) and had raised $260 which they presented to us with a nice note. I have to admit I got tears in my eyes, thinking these kids came up with the idea, advertised it to the student body (although I heard the high school wanted to be involved and requested to be in on what happens in the future) and collected the change in the Afri-Can – which I thought was very creative.
Lori also told us they planned on appointing a “student representative” for each class to check the blog, keep up to date with what’s happening in Kenya (once we are on the ground in May) and report back to the classroom. I look forward to more interaction with them in the future and maybe even having a couple of them visit us in Tala, Kenya!