Mahali Pa Watoto

Last week I (Lindy) got the priviledge of helping some ladies at our church put together bags of food for a preschool about 15 minutes from us. This school is very poor. A british banker built it for the poorest of the poor in that area. The first day it opened over 300 children were just dropped off there. After much planning, discernment, and meeting with families it was narrowed down to the neediest 70. Wednesday we packaged the food then Friday we went to their Christmas party, blew up some balloons, watched the cutest Christmas play ever, and gave out their bags (which included Chai, sugar, flour, corn meal, tea biscuits, drinking chocolate, salt, butter, and oil- these are important cooking ingredients for basic Kenyan foods) I left a little early to help Su with a church event hosted by our church that night, but what we got to participate in, we really loved.

These pictures are courtesy of Su's iphone. I pretty much stole her pics from facebook, but she wouldn't mind! Apparently after living here for a while no one takes their camera with them any more. We were looking around at each other saying "Does ANYONE have a camera?"

We were honored with aluminum foil sashes and Christmas cards made by the kids.

Here come the angels and sheppherds

This was during the Christmas program. Do you see the little long-haired-nappy-headed white baby doll that was "Jesus?"

You can see it here just a little better. Look next to the orange donkey with the blanket on his head. When "Mary" had that baby I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It was so precious yet so hysterical. My bible study leader, Stephanie, and I decided we MUST get them a black baby.

Su forgot the facepaint back at the house, but when we got there everyones' faces were already painted. This little girl was one of the several who "graduated". We never did figure out what the gingerbread was on the graduation gown.