I neglected to mention that the day after the distribution we attended the Rotary luncehon at a downtown hotel, as well as having a brief meeting with Gideon to review the distributions. Bob showed the new PR presentation for SCAW, and of course we were thanked profusely. We were given soapstone carvings of animials that we from KIssi, an area we had been to, so they were even more special. Unfortunately they were short one, and Lauren graciously insisted her ...

I cannot describe the emotion when I arrived back at the lodge from our safari and Christine and Gladys were there to greet me!!!! Tears of joy and bear hugs were the items of the moment. For those of you who don't know, Christine was a recipient of a bedkit in Uganda four years ago. I had done an interview with her and couldn't get her out of my mind. So about four days later I asked Gladys if she could find her, would she see if Christine would like to go to ...

We were ion the road by 5:30 am this morning in order to miss the Nairobi traffic. After a stop at a souvenir store along the way, we slowly and dustily, made our way up a mountain over a narrow, bumpy and switchback road. Workers along the way were repairing the road by hand. We observed subsistance tiered farming along the way but unfortunatley most of the crops were dried up because of the drought. We later learned that the road was only put in a few years ag...

The 25th was a travel day with a few stops from start to finish. The first was a very heartwarming and touching residential school run by Brother Kennedy, who himself had been very poor while growing up and did not receive an education til an adult. He also had visited the CODY Institute in Halifax, a program that assists 3rd world leaders in developing their skills. Our team leader Bob had been asked by a friend to visit the school, and thus the reason for the v...

Today we travelled approx one hour from Nairobi to a centre run by the Anglican Church and the Rotary Club. It started about 13 years ago and has a primary and secondary school, a residence, a health centre and the church. It has approx 230 students, all of are orphans. It was a wonder to behold as we travelled for about 1/2 hour along narrow, bumpy and winding roads only to open on this oasis! of well built structures and manicured lawns. We toured their sit...