Cura - Day 3

Hey Everybody!

Finishing up day 3 at Cura. Today has had less drama than yesterday, but is twice as busy with hustle and bustle as the community gets ready for the ground breaking ceremony of the secondary school! I can't talk about it right now, but there are some very exciting things planned!

Today I visited each grade. Below are photos of some of the classes. You now have a visual for the needs portion of my last post. The children sang, read, and asked me questions about where i come from and how many brothers & sisters I had. When I told them my age, they giggled! I guess my bald head was throwing them off.

Later in the day, during recess, the children were going around the compound, cleaning brush and tall grass. The only lawn mowers here are bare hands. When I asked the Deputy Head Teacher If what they were doing was for the event on Thursday, she replied, "no, this is their field, their community and they like to keep it nice and clean." Speechless.

While walking away from the field I gave a child, Peter, a high five. Oh boy. I had to give every child a high five! Some multiple! They kept running around in circles, climbing over each other to touch my hand. Absolutely precious. They're still fascinated with my arm hair. I now know what cats and dogs must feel like. Haha.

Later in the afternoon, I interviewed Scola, the technology teacher. She's responsible for the computer labs and library. Below are photos of both those facilities. She was explaining to me the materials they had. The computers they're using are Pentium IIIs. If anyone knows of any college surplus sales going on for computers faster than these, please let me know! I would love to see the children have faster computers to learn on like the young kids in America. Also books. Anyone know of a library selling off books? I would really like to know!

As the day ended, I was able to grab an interview with Moses, the head manager of Cura Orphanage. He was explaining to me that the orphanage has changed the children's lives from a mind set of despair to one of hope and optimism! Both he and I started to tear up during the interview. I asked him why there aren't more children in the home when it has the space for 150 (50 living there now). Moses explained to me that there aren't enough resources to support that many children without lowering the quality of life from the current group. Food, clothing, blankets, etc. Theres a waiting list of other orphans who are praying to get in but cannot. It's very sad.

Tomorrow is a busy day starting off in Nairobi with the bee keepers of the community coming together for a yearly meeting and then traveling off to Cura for more excitement. Their soccer goal collapsed, so in going to put the camera down for a bit and try to fix it for them.

I hope you enjoy the pictures!