Kipsenende

Today was our last day based in Eldoret.  That meant we had to load the truck with ALL our gear and baggage.  This was the first time we had to do that, as we had a cargo vehicle for the drive up.  The plan was we would use a lot of the supplies up and bringing it back would be easier.  It wasn’t.  Our driver, Arrington, did a great job of tying almost all of it on top.  We looked like a mutatu, but we got to Kipsenende with everything we needed.

Kipsenende is a feeding station recently established at a church Bernard founded.  They have built a dining hall, which also serves as a meeting place for the church, a kitchen, and a widow’s dorm.  The place looked great, and the kids were a lot of fun.  We ran through our now-familiar routine of setup and worked through the orphans pretty quickly.  Brad says they had the best teeth of any place we had been.  Ben saw several kids with parasites, so we treated the entire population for that. 

Later, the team helped some community people while Maureen, Bernard, Cherie and I slipped away to Ngenymesut to have the board meeting that I would have had yesterday but for the Pokot visit.  That meeting went well.  I am always impresses with one or two people in these meetings.  They ask great questions and seem to have orphans best interests at heart.  There was one guy who asked for a scholarship for himself, but there’s one of those in every crowd, too.

We packed up early as this place was pretty small and we were done.  After the ceremonial tree planting, we loaded up and headed out for Nakuru, last stop before Nairobi and then home.  On the highway we had a near miss with a pedestrian when a drunk man carrying four chickens walked out in frint of us.  Arrington was able to stop in time, which is good because the drunk man was not moving out of the way.

So now we are safely in the Kunste Hotel in Nakru.  What a blessing this trip has been, th medical part especially.  We’ve learned a lot, made new friends, and did some of those awesome “good works” that the bible is always talking about.  Very cool.

Kipsenende