Kenya: Thika

From Kenya 2012

Our fourth distribution was in Thika and included among the 600 children who received bedkits today were thirty children with special needs.

We are so pleased that one of the items in this year’s bedkits is a pair of flip-flops. We saw so many young chldren with toughened bare feet, others dragging along in well-worn over-sized adult shoes and many in heavy, large rubber boots. Despite this, the most important item in the bedkit is still the foam mattress.

“Cheka” our photographer shouts to the “watato” as he tries to capture their smiles (cheka) for the photographs.

But the really big smiles come when the children (watato) are handed their own big bedkits to take home.

“Kulala salama” (Sleep Well)

Patti Jones,
for Team Kenya 2012

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