I woke at 5am today and was walking through Jam City Slum before 6 to meet Mwololo on the main road for our trip into Kibera. We have three teacher interviews scheduled for Jatahidi Preschool. We are beginning to support the efforts of the school in a more formal way, repairing the roof, purchasing desks and blackboards, beginning a school feeding program. The place is interesting, small and dilapidated, like most of Kibera slum. So we traveled to town, got tea, then on to Kibera. We checked on the work of the builders who removed the leaking iron-sheet roof and are replacing the trusses and other wood and installing new iron sheets. The whole process will take about three to four days. They are also building three small bridges so that students can get across the sewage without falling in, as they sometimes do. The interviews went fine and we will continue with more next Wednesday. We need two more teachers. We also met with the school’s education committee to go over our responsibilities and theirs. That meeting went well also. So we are all set. Here are some pics of the Kibera School.

Tomorrow we head to the 2 acre shamba, check on the maize and meet with the widows group. Their chicken cooperative needs support and instruction and we will also decide if we need to pump water to the farm for irrigation. There was so much water last week; we thought it was too much. There is water surrounding the fields but our section is beginning to show need of water.

Fred, my Masai friend, marries on Saturday. Yesterday we went to the grocery store and bought a new shirt, tie, socks and shoes for the wedding. He will look very smart and I am sure I will have some photos. We also both went to get our hair shaved. Another 50 cents!

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