These kids are my favorite! They live near by Challenge Farm (our ministry) and run to greet us each time we go to town. Now in our free time some of us go to hang out with them. Balloons, drawing, games, songs, dancing…sometimes we pretend that we are different animals too. When we play 'copy-miss-Kathryn' they all die laughing when I make them shake their butts.
Handing out cookies.
They call them biscuts, but say it in their funny little accents "bis-quwwit"
It's funny to think about the looks you would get at home
if you carried your baby and a chicken in your arms at the same time.
This trio sat next to us on the 'matatu' ride home (public transportation).
He was scared of us at first, but eventually he warmed up…
Our ministry contact, Mrs Cheri, took us to the slums where most of the kids living in our compound come from. That's where I met this little guy.
The poverty was heart breaking.
This is someone's home in the slums.
Just a bunch of sticks covered in old plastic bags.
The dad who lives here let some of us inside, there was nothing but dirt and sticks.
More plastic bag homes. Also, some nuts laying out in the sun on a tarp to roast. Fortunately, Mrs Cheri (our contact) has been working with this community so they can build their own mud homes with tin rooves, like the ones in the back you can see.
Africans are SO beautiful! I want to look like this when I grow up.
Especially the fun colors and clothes.
Dream come true!…
Nicole gets to tie a baby to her back like all the African women do.
Thank goodness for a great camera zoom
so I could capture this woman's patriotic weave for all to see.
Movie night with all the girls! Lion King of course.
Sweet baby Lily.
