Kenya Update
It is wonderful to be out here again and the project is coming along great!
On Monday we presented to the Education Officer who is in charge of 175 (k-gr8) primary schools and 34 high schools. We were thrilled when she invited us to speak to a meeting with 60 of the elementary schools principals and administrators on Wednesday. We got a great response to the E-learning project (Project Rachel) and Days for Girls!
My luggage was 4 days late so I wore Khayanga’s clothes but the great thing is that we didn’t have a hassle at customs to get the 8 tablets, the education equipment and 6 lbs of snaps for Days for Girls reusable menstrual kits that Vida generously donated. (Yay Vida)
We shopped, benches and tables are being built and strategies are being figured out on how to manage the E learning lab, computer lab and library. We also pulled out our hair doing the technical stuff with the older tablets…. We were soooo lucky to have Terry Colton from the Coquitlam club to help and to make us really laugh. He took some fantastic pictures with his drone and so the boys had fun with the toys.
On Thursday we went to an extremely productive meeting with the Rotary Club in Eldoret. They were excited about our being able to produce Days for Girls kits because they need it for one of their projects. They will be coming with us to a community where they set up Rachel and we will learn firsthand how to really implement it and see if we can get some on the ground training for our staff.
We are now in Gil Gil (5 hours from Musembe) and getting a chance to talk with Mary, another Rotarian, who is setting Terry up with the Rachel project here…..
I feel very lucky to be here and I wish you all were here as well!
Cleone