Thursday, September 29 - Eastleigh

Thursday, September 29, 2011 - Eastleigh 

Today was an emotionally and physically exhausting day!  

Julie and Joy worked with the Iften ladies for the last time.  We have learned to love them and they certainly blessed us in many ways.  The ladies were very excited to receive the notebooks, pencils and sharpeners, volleyballs, volleyball nets and 2 soccer balls that we brought for them.

Lila and Nick distributed toothbrushes and toothpaste to the pre-primary classes.  The children were very excited to receive this gift.  Lila and Nick were hugged and thanked many of the children!  They were also pleased to have the children sing to them.

John was busy painting the Iften Ladies’ classroom and Don was preparing for our workshops with the entire staff on Monday and Tuesday.

At lunch time, we presented the library books to Peter, the Head Master, and 2 students from each class,   It was very moving to see how well the books were accepted.  Two students formally thanked us.  The excitement increased when we presented them with the 10 soccer balls and 2 volley balls.  Stephen, the Director of Eastleigh, was also very touched with the number of books we bought for the library.  What was especially appreciated was the fact that we bought the books in Nairobi and they all had African content.  Many, many pictures were taken.

After lunch we all donned our painting clothes and got busy!  We achieved our goal of completing the painting of the Iften classroom, the Noor jewellery making room, the showroom for the jewellery and the office.  It has been extremely hot painting these rooms because of the tin roofs. It was fun when  the staff joined in and helped us.  Lila worked hard cleaning windows that had not been cleaned in many years!

We are all very tired tonight as we sort through the many emotions we experienced today.  We have experienced God’s love in so many unexpected ways and pray that God’s love has shone through us as we worked with these wonderful people.

We will not be writing for our Blog for Friday and Saturday because we are going to rest up in the country in order to get rejuvenated and prepare for the Workshops we are presenting to the 67 staff at Eastleigh Community Centre.  In the Interim, we recommend that you check out the Kenny’s Blog by Googling, The Five Kennys.