The electricity on our room had been off since Saturday morning but when we woke, the whole area was off as a main substation was out. There had been a storm overnight but it had cleared and become quite bright. The picture below is from the previous evening when we were planning. Most of the …
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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 …
Day 4
The morning started with Sam and Erin running a crafts session with Anna and Catherine Ruddock while Jed. Jon Rudduck and I played more football games with the children. They are mainly quite young so it’s stretching my memory to go back to when I did U6 football. This one below is called the Chicken …
How the other half live
We’ve woken up every morning to the smell of wood smoke at 7am. This is the smell of the fires used to heat the breakfast for the children who sleep in dormitories above our room. The toilets we use leak water from the base and the handles on some are broken. But yet there is …
Music, craft and football
Today we met the children on their field outside their classrooms. Roaming around the field was a young cow and several sheep (or Kenya Lawn mowers!) and the kids waited excitedly outside.We did some crafts and songs with them in the classroom which they loved doing and there were lots of smiling faces and laughter.After …
Chapter One – A New Hope!
Refreshed after a night in a Nairobi hotel, a good sleep and a breakfast watching Kenyan Red Kites fly around the 7th floor restaurant windows, we loaded up the same van with some cases inside this time. Jon and Catherine organised the cases on the roof and off we went through the Nairobi traffic to …
Are we nearly there yet???
We survived the 9 hour flight and landed at Nairobi just after 9.30pm local time having had a great view of the Sahara as we flew over it. The joy of getting off the airplane was followed up by our first experience of road travel, Kenyan style. We boarded our 18 seater bus after all …
Ready to fly!
We’ve made it onto the plane and ready to go. Erin even got a safari hat! There’s much excitement amongst the 4 families were traveling with as lots of photos are being posted on the Kenya Team WhatsApp group. Many thanks to all those volunteers who got us all to the airport on time this …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Setting the scene…..
So last year my wife said the church she goes to was running a trip to an orphanage just outside of Nairobi and that she’d like us to go as a family. Having gone to Kenya 25 years ago on a beach trip and safari and loved it, I was keen to go back again …
Baldwin’s Family Travel 