Londiani 30 May 2012

We slept well last night at the training center.  The widows brought us mandazi (Kenyan Pastry), bread and butter, and chai for breakfast and I covered the last minute details for next week with Thomas.  I think the medical team, and all who visit will really be impressed with what we are doing here.

The training center and Londiani orphanage are about 40miles apart as the crow flies, but it took us 3 hours to get there, that’s 13 miles an hour.  Today’s roads were the worst ones we have seen on this trip.  The road from Dirubi to Kericho is OK, but then there is the killer diversion again, 1 hour to go 5km.  The Londiani road has always been bad, but they are working on it now.  The Chinese road crew is building a really nice highway, but some of their detours are downright scary.  Check out the photos on Facebook (facebook.com/kwoministries) for some pics of the road and us crossing a Lego block bridge!

As we approached Londiani, we passed the Chysliot Feeding Station, but we did not have time to stop.  Richard Koech knew we would be passing by, so he had all his kids dressed in their Sunday best, run out to the road to greet us.  It wasn’t a fair trick, but we stopped by the side of the road and spoke to them for a few minutes. 

Londiani looked really good.  We spent some time with the nurse who will be joining all of us at the training center next week for some training with the American doctors.  They have a microscope at Londiani and can do malaria, typhoid, and some other tests on the spot.  Mauryn volunteered to do a malaria test for us so we could see the process.  Pretty neat.  They have made some good improvements to the kitchen there as well.  We met with the widows and loved on the kids.  It was a great visit.

We left there happy but tired and made our way back to Nakuru to stay at the Kunste.  We will go back to Nairobi in the morning and meet Francis Mbuvi, fresh back from the US, at the Java House for our weekly fix.  More tomorrow.