Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Kevin Mwenda (Child No. MC126) Kevin is an orphan. When his father died, Kevin’s step-mom said the church could take him to live at Mercy Child Foundation in Koma, Kenya. He was born September 10, 1994 in Meru, Kenya and has three brothers, Frank, lives here with...
Will it start?
The other day I was woken up by the sound of Peter and Kilonzo trying to start the school van. As you can see from the photo, the van is parked on Gideon's compound every night and that morning it had been parked right outside our bedroom window - I heard them try...
Work, play, visit…what do I do?
What do visitors do while they are here with us? They go about daily living with us...no electricity-use flashlights, no vehicle-walk to the Academy, rice and skuma for lunch-rice and skuma for lunch. No 5-star hotel experiences - you make your own bed, you help...
Ad·am·ol·ogy
According to dictionary.com this is not a word, but it's a word that came to mind when I was thinking about how I sometimes try to place blame somewhere other than on myself. Sometimes without realizing it or wanting to admit it and I believe I'm not the only one...
Movie night in pictures…
Saturday evening began with Chuck giving Nick a tour of the Academy while I set up the equipment. Here's Chuck, Nick and Christopher in front of the kitchen and on top of the school building - During the tour the kids were served dinner of ugali (flour and water...
Quote from a government official…
"Watoto (children) are born every day" - this was not said in a 'please help us because children are born every day' sort of way, but a 'what's you're hurry to help, children are born every day there will always be more to help' way.
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Bonfase Ngui (Child No. 123) Bonfase lives at Nice View Academy in Tala, Kenya with his mother, Jane, who is the Pre-Unit (kindergarten) teacher at the Academy. His parents are divorced. He was born in Mwiingi, Kenya on 4-6-2001 and has two brothers and one sister. ...
More details please!
Yesterday I told you about our first day of school...today I'll give you a little more detail to the story. When I visited all the classes I thought everyone would be there since it was the first day of school, good assumption don't you think? However I was told many...
School begins
I had a blog post all ready to go then realized I didn't have any photos included...shame on me! Here's our day with photos! At the beginning of the day the students gathered for assembly, uniform inspection and instructions/rules for the term. While Chuck met with...
Bread alone?
How do you tell a child God loves them yet do not fill their stomach? I know, I know "...man does not live on bread alone..." (Deuteronomy 8:3 NIV, emphasis added). But as I was thinking and meditating on that question and verse the word alone jumped out at me. To...