Today we were again at Uriri Orphanage. When we arrived, we only had 30 kids to go
before moving on to the feeding station kids.
We also saw the widows, guards and other employees at the orphanage.
After we finished with the orphanage kids, Garren, Barrett,
Kennedy and I went over to Nana Glasscock Orphanage to see the construction
progress and visit the children. We will
be seeing them tomorrow for clinic, but the road to the orphanage is too bad to
carry the medical team over there and risk getting stuck. So we will be shuttling the kids in the Land
Cruisers from the main road.
This is the orphanage that is named for Garren’s
grandmother, Loraine “Nana” Glasscock.
The place looked really good and Garren and Barrett were really
happy. The kids sang a few songs for us
and we said some words of encouragement to the kids and then we had to go. You can see the pictures on Facebook at the
KWO page.
By the time we returned, the medical team had finished with
everyone at Uriri and got to tour that orphanage. They have a sugar cane processing project
there as well as a brick-making project.
The new style bricks are being used at Glasscock for the new clinic
building. They are cement stabilized
compressed soil blocks that don’t require any firing and are larger and
stronger than the bricks that are made locally.
Chandi had a prospective customer there to see the manufacturing
process, so we are hopeful that this will be a good money maker for them.
Then we said goodbye for today to Uriri and headed back to
Kisii to shop for soapstone. The hand
carved pieces of soft stone are mined and made in this region and we have a
good friend of KWO that owns a big shop there.
Everyone bought something and made some great deals I think. A quick stop at the chemist in Kisii town
finished out the day.
Tomorrow, we will treat the kids from Glasscock and then
make a long drive back to Nakuru. We
will tour the Nakuru game park Wednesday morning and then head into
Nairobi. I’ll write more tomorrow, be
blessed.
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