Today we visited a center that not only runs a school (from 3-4 year olds up through grade 4) but also has a health and wellness program for expectant moms and their babies. Such impressive work.
We again received a very warm welcome and got to see the children in their classrooms and some sung to us.
They loved posing for photos and liked to touch our skin and my hair because we were their first pale visitors.
After lunch with our hosts at the center…ugali; fried tilapia tails; chapati; rice & kale (and there is always chicken which I do not eat but I love everything else we’ve been eating here, we visited the home of one of the babies being helped through the center. The home was impressive for the area, tidy and well built, with several outbuildings on 3 acres. The family has 8 children. They graciously showed us their fields of sweet potatoes and maize and taught us how to weed. We even learned how to make ugali, a traditional and ubiquitous dish, over the open fire. The mom also sells charcoal and the family grows and sells saplings to be used in home construction. I was impressed by their industriousness.
Notes From Real Life 