Sister Freda's!!

I am now staying at Sister Freda's which is only about 30 ride from where I was staying before. So far I am the only volunteer here, but it is fine because I have Emily, pretty much my care taker. I also have the projects I was working on before with CommonGround so I am staying busy with that.After about 4 days of arriving I finally met with Sister Freda. She is one of the sweetest ladies and is so thankful for everything that she has. She has asked me to design some dorms for the nursing college a kitchen and dinning room and also a kitchen and dinning room for the high school. Currently she doesn't have any funds to go towards these projects she is just praying that God will help her. If I can figure out how to start a website I am going to try and get one started so more people can be aware of everything she is trying to do. Above is a picture of the hospital.

This is the Feeding program where young kids learn the basics like numbers and letters. It is basically a program to give kids food, but they only get the food if they come and stay for class. I think there are 3 classes all of them are pre kindergarden. Once they pass a test then they can go onto primary school.

This is my room that is very cozy. I have a bathroom connected which is really nice, but the shower is only cold water. I think they are going to have it fixed soon. But "soon" is probably on Kenyan time so my guess is that it will be fixed 3 weeks from now. I have a little porch outside where I take most of my meals with Emily. This weekend there are other volunteers coming so I will soon have more company to eat with!

This is a baby clinic that I went to. Here children under 5 could receive immunizations and pregnant women could get vitamins. my job for the day was to weigh the babies in the scale below. The clinic was set up in a church, so it was pretty dirty. I was expecting more women to show up, but only about 10 people came to get medicine which is surprising because the medicine was so cheap.

Here are some of the Women from the Kipsongo slum that we are working with. They are so much jewelry that we are going to sell online. We met with them today to figure out more things that they can make so sell. Coming soon are some stuffed animals, paintings, coasters, various products made of fabrics. hopefully shoes once we get investors to help pay for start up costs. The women were so excited so get started making stuff. They came with us to town so get supplies for them to begin their businesses. The women know how to make a  lot of products but the problem is have the supplies to make them.

Here is one of the homes of the women. Yes it is made of garbage bags.

For our online store we want to have a kids line too so here are some pictures of a photoshoot we were having! The girls are so cute... pretty much all of them are natural models. esp the one above!

This past week I went to Mombasa which is on the coast. We spent a day walking around old town to see the old buildings and shops. Behind me in the picture above is Fort Jesus where the military used to be. The next night we went down the coast more and stayed on Tiwi Beach. We literally camped right on the beach. It can't really get any better than that! It was so windy though that we had to move the tent back a bit to try and give us some cover... The tent blew away a few times.

The next day we headed to Diani beach which was even more beautiful than Tiwi. I don't know how the sand was even more white but it was. There were also so many Dhows (the boat behind me) that they use for fishing. I also took a camel ride! They said the camels walk all the way there from Ethiopia and it takes them about 4 months. As i was on the camel I have one of the guys walking with us take a picture, but naturally he didn't get the entire camel or show how tall it actually was. Camels are big animals, the one I am on is 11 years old and they can live to be 35-40.

The beach was SOO hard to leave esp because we had a 16 hr bus ride back to Kitale. Also the Mangoes on the coast are to die for! I miss them already!

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