Kenya: Gilgil

Our sixth distribution was to the city of Gilgil, 6,600 feet above sea level.

From Kenya 2012

It was a day of very mixed emotions for our SCAW team. As always, happy to be able to deliver bedkits from generous donors so far away from here and happy to see 700 excited, smiling children ready to receive them.

Sadness? As with all SCAW distributions, our team had an opportunity to visit several local homes where bedkits had just been received. In fact, as we arrived some of the children and parents were just arriving home, after having walked nearly 10 km. along dusty paths through open desert-like plains.

From Kenya 2012

We spent about an hour walking in and out of many homes of 55 families in a “camp for IDP’s” (Internally Displaced Persons) -- homes of sticks and used plastic sheeting, most no bigger than ten feet square. Homes in a dry, remote and dusty half acre plot of land, three km. away from a water source.

Happiness? Knowing that many of these homes will now have a mattress and a mosquito net. Best of all, listening to the melodious swahili songs sung by these desperately poor families as they spontaneously gathered to bid us farewell and thank you.

Patti Jones,
for Team Kenya 2012

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