What a full day - I can't even wrap my brain around everything that we got to do. This morning we arrived in the village and split into our 3 groups: construction, nursery school, and secondary food service. The construction team finished building the bathing rooms for the boys at the secondary school, and they will be painting it tomorrow. The nursery school team had so many kids they ran out of stickers and tattoos, but they had a blast (: and we helped the secondary school workers prepare lunch and dinner for the students and teachers, then headed to hang out at the primary school.
One of my favorite things about coming here is seeing our team connect with the students they have met in previous years. There is nothing like being recognized and hugging a child you already know. I love the partnership our church has built over the past 5 years with this community of Endana. People know which kids are their friends sponsor kids, and they find them and text pictures - there's nothing like it.
Anyways, for lunch we went to sit by the river to eat. It was gorgeous and we got to see the pump house that provides clean water to the entire community that previous teams helped to build. SO COOL.
After lunch, we went on a home visit. We split up into 3 groups to visit some remote tribal communities. Wow. I don't think these people had ever seen Americans before. At first they were shy, but we ended up having some great conversations, milking goats, and we think a family stepped over the line of faith.
After dinner, David from Bright Point shared about his story and their strategy for impacting communities through child sponsorships. It's so great to see how God is changing lives all over Kenya!
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