VTC and Dirubi

We slept so well last night.  We had such a great feast and were very tired from our trip and it felt so good to be at our new "home" in Dirubi.  Today we spent a rather lazy day touring the VTC, (Vocational Training Center) and the Dirubi orphanage.  The new students seem eager and the new masonry, carpentry, and sewing programs are off to a good start.  I reviewed the intake of students with John Kariuki and Susie went around taking pictures. 

After lunch we had a good rest time and later went over to see what was new at the Dirubi Orphanage.  Dirubi is the oldest of our orphanages and one of the most compressed.   They have learned to do a lot with a little space there.  We recorded the choir and were also very impressed with their work.  Being an older place, they have a larger proportion of high-school kids so the voices were more mature and deep than most other places.

This evening, the workers began to arrive for our meetings tomorrow.  We shared dinner with them and retires, preparing for a long day of meetings tomorrow.  I will probably not blog again until after we visit Lee McGraw orphanage on Thursday.

Recently all the cell phone carriers began to purge users who had not "registered" their verified identities with the company.  This is in response to a new Kenyan law to help identify those who were using the cell network to commit fraud, and do other bad things.  I thought all of my accounts were registered properly, but apparently not.  Today all of our Safaricom lines stopped working completely.  Now we are using our backup carrier, Orange to get online.  However we don’t have phone service and no email on our iPhones. Just another reminder of how blessed we are in America and how dependent we have become on our smart phones!  This means no pictures can be upladed just yet, but we hope to have it all sorted out by Friday when we move on from here.