Saturdays activities

After breakfast we sat in the lounge area of our block and did a little planning for the activities for the children for the day.

We were doing a music session as well as colouring in some activity books with the children. We have a 2 hour session where we split the children into 2 groups and they have an hour with 2 families and then swap over and do the activity the other families have planned.

My wife, Sam, teaches music and we’d brought over some purcussion instruments. The children played hand drums, triangles, wood blocks and shakes shakers with unbounded enthusiasm!

Sam had written the names of the instruments on the blackboard at the beginning of the session but when we tidied up at the end, we’d been left a special message underneath the instrument names by one of the children……

We didn’t run afternoon sessions as the orphanage had a visit from a man who had grown up in the house and is now a doctor. He had brought his colleagues with him.

While they were here, we were shown the on site business. The orphanage rent out 2 buildings to a company who manufacture cleaning materials, hand sanitizers and animal deworm chemicals that they sell all over Kenya and into Sudan. They also have a deep bore hole here that they plan to use to filter, purify and bottle to sell on. The orphanage rent the buildings on the basis that the company only use local people as staff and also train orphanage children.

Finally, I saw this hall being cleaned this morning. The difference here was that it was cleaned by a young girl bending over wiping the floor with a tea towel.