6 Month Update!

6 month update!

Hello everyone!

I can't even believe I have been here for 6 months!

My time here has been exciting, difficult, fun, stretching and definitely an adventure.

One of the most recent things we have started is a small restaurant (which is called a hotel here) at the City of Hope. We set it up to teach some of the children how to run a store/restaurant and give them experience. Currently we have 3 girls running the store Bhoke, Dorka and Jane. There are 2 more girls who help with making the chai (tea) and mandazi (African donut). At 10 AM is chai break which is when they eat breakfast here the employees can come and eat mandazi have a cup of chai or have a soda and crackers. This has really been fun for me because Imani and I are the managers. J

My sister Greta is really enjoying bringing art into the school at the City of Hope. She has many classes during the week and the children love the painting drawing and are very creative.

Also my sister Alaina is enjoying helping with the school, Playing and helping the kids, Greta’s class and almost anything that needs to be done.

I am also working on making a dictionary that has English, Swahili, and the “mother tongue” in this area Kikuria.

We are also continuing our building projects at the hospital and around the compound. We have 2 milk cows. We are milking one and the other one is about to give birth. The corn fields are now high and it is looking like we will have a good harvest!

I want to thank everyone who has supported me with this endeavor. Truly this has been a learning experience. I never thought that this missionary field would teach me so much.  

            We are also putting together a huge Christmas celebration for the Children here. We will be slaughtering a few cows inviting the guardians of the children and many other to celebrate with us. The children have also been preparing for the Christmas parades we are going to do in the neighboring villages. Imani Chacha has been teaching the drum line, preparing for the parade. My sisters have been teaching flags, dances and other performing arts to some teams of children.

If you would like to contribute towards making this Christmas for the children here incredible please send me an email!

            If you have any encouragement or anything please feel free to send me an email I cant garanty a promt reply I will get it. I would also like to hear about what is going on in your life and what God is doing in your part of the world.  Also you have supported me once and would like to again please send me and email at ledyard.k@gmail.com

Bless you all!

           

Visiting the secondary school

About a month ago I went with a few of the children to a secondary school just up the road from us. They invited us to come to their graduation.

Ambulance driver

A short story from the field: 

Two nights ago about 8:00PM I was just winding down from the day and I was disturbed by one of our teachers running up talking really fast and freaking out. after a minute I understood that the head master from the school up the road had just wrecked his motorcycle right down the
road from us so we took the truck and found him at the police station (someone else had driven him there on a motorcycle) 

He was beat up pretty bad so we decided to take him to the District hospital about 45 minutes away.  He was in the back of the pickup with 3 guys holding him driving over the rough roads. We get to the hospital and they are the slowest I have ever seen finally they let us take him to the ward and we put him in the bed. There was only 1 nurse for the whole ward and she was not a very helpful person. so we ended up cleaning him up ourselves.

He is recovering well. I guess this makes me an ambulance driver :)