Kenya Update March 17, 2019
This week I met Mary Coulson and felt inspired, pampered and cried. She has taken in 120 children that are mostly not orphans but many of their parents abused, neglected, abandoned or sold them as prostitutes. The Coquitlam club is planning to bring ARES (upgrade from Rachel) to the school that Mary set up and so we dropped Terry Colson off and learnt lots.
We travelled to a desert village where the RACHEL project made a 0.36 school mark upgrade after a year. We will hire an enthusiastic teacher from there to help with our teacher workshop. We promote Days for Girls wherever we go.
Lumber yards, paint places and hardware stores visits help us get ready for next week’s set up of the computer and e-learning labs. Yesterday, I proudly got open office installed on 18 lap tops only to find out that the 17+year old xp computers can’t play the videos from RACHEL. JoAnne (from here), Festus (K’s brother), some advice from Al Stjernegaard, lots of help from Michael Berrisford and now a computer tech will make this tech team successful. Whewwww...today's challenge… can we get programs from ARES onto RACHEL?
I also got to spend time with monkeys, saw some ostriches, zebras and lots of birds. Khayanga is inspirational, fun and gets things done in a place where there are lots of challenges. I am happy!
Cleone