Day 2
Kibera, the largest slum area in Africa with over 1,000,000 residents was our first distribution site. This was one of the suburbs of Nairobi that was greatly affected during the riots following last year’s national elections that caused the delay in the 2008 Kenyan distribution. School attendance figures posted on the walls revealed that the school lost one third of its students during the uprising.
The chosen children for our first distribution of 600 bedkits were a most deserving group – children with AIDS, orphans, special needs children and children from single parent families, often grandmothers. Prominent throughout this primary school, so deeply affected by HIV/AIDS, were posters and paintings suggesting abstinence of sex until marriage and social acceptance of those who suffer from HIV/AIDS. A warm welcome was received by the school staff. They also made a plea that we come back next year.
Six hundred children will sleep better tonite.
Alan Ingram
for Team Kenya
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