Well it's Wednesday already, half way through my first week and still really enjoying it!

Every second Wednesday is a group project day, which means all volunteers don't go to their individual work they go as a group and help the community. In the morning we went to the feeding programme which has been set up by a lady called Pat Dixon, who basically hands out food supply's to approximately 400 elderly or sick people every fortnight! Her income to be able to run this programme is from 3 main sources, charity/organisation/individuals in holland, USA and Australia.

The packages we helped distribute consisted of: maize flour, beans, rice, salt, box of matches, newspaper, loaf of bread, a pam tree and 400 Kenyan shillings for them to go and buy fruit/veg!

The 400 people come every fortnight and have a badge to say they're on the feeding programme list! Peter who is Pat's regular volunteer has a book and ticks everyone off before they're allowed to collect their items! It was an amazing project and felt so good to be part of it, the people looked so frail with walking sticks etc and apparently some of them walked 3 hours to get to us.

It rained all morning while we were at this feeding programme in Limuru and when we went back to Brackenhurst for lunch it was so cold and horrible! We were then given an hour or so 'African time' for lunch and to meet back at the mini buses for 1.30pm to go to our afternoon project!

This was a 40 minute drive away to a school for special needs children, where they live all year round! I was truely shocked this afternoon at what I saw:

They had no running water, no electric and not enough beds for them all to sleep in, there was 43 children in this school/dormintories and only 30 beds! The male and female dorms were awful, the smell of the rooms made me just about sick. The smell of stale urine and holes in the ground in the middle of the dorms. It was a massive culture shock for me this afternoon.

Chris, Sophia and Caroline were the volunteers that are based here every day, they have done an amazing amount of work and made this superb swing for the children, raised money to be able to get a pump for the well installed which will have filters etc and will mean it is safe to drink, they also have bought brand new mattresses for all the beds as the ones they are using at present are falling apart!

After we had cleaned the two classrooms from top to bottom, we had a massive game of football with all the children, but in the end it was very competitive and turned out to be the volunteers v's the co-orinators!! Really good fun but think I'll have a few bruises tomorrow.

In the evening I had a few viber calls since I will not have any internet access till Sunday since I will be in Masai Mara :) Really looking forward to it. Had another quiet night on the phone and packed for our Safari adventure!!

Roll on some fun with Lions, Elephants and Giraffe's I'd say :) Night folks xxx