2017 Kenya Update #10 - Bittersweet farewell

From: Kathy Macdonald

This morning we packed and said farewell to all our friends in Meru. It is surprising how much you can get done in a week and how much more you wish you could have done. There is always next time …

A short list of the work completed includes:

• Continuation of the impact study of the feeding program
• A study of the crop production at Gichunge Primary
• The documentation of the daily process for porridge production
• Updating of the staff directories for BLISS and Gichunge
• Photographing of every class at Gichunge Primary
• Completion of the use and resilience of solar lanterns at BLISS; the gifting of solar lanterns to the incoming From 1 students
• The visiting of over 50 student homes
• Two full dissections in the BLISS science lab
• Worship with the Mwanika Methodist Church congregation
• … and hundreds of new and renewed friendships

We are seeing the "other" side of Kenya for a few days on the way back to Nairobi and our flight home. It began with a visit to the Women's Cooperative Spinners & Weavers site in Nanyuki. They began with 6 women in 1977 and now over a hundred single women work there daily supporting a high school for girls as well as their own families. Kenya has hundreds of wonderful stories … we are collecting a few more before coming home.

Kwaheri (Goodbye)

Final Photo of the Team

A favorite photo from our week