On to Africa...

Saturday.. our flight from Kiev with a layover in Turkey got into Nairobi at 3am and after three hours sleep we were ready to get right into the schedule which included an afternoon in Mathare slums where we support a School lunch program! Our school is out until Friday but it is a reminder of how empty and purposeless the days are when there is no work, no government education for the slums and no activity centers...as one of the dads said, "just survival". Enos' mom, Esther, has a little shop (see picture of her sitting in it) so we decided to walk  through the slum from the school to see it. Esther's shop is behind the blue shutters. People reach through a hole in the chain link fencing that forms the opening to her shop, to buy small packets of pasta, sugar, oil etc. and sometimes even a piece of candy. It was near the end of the day and there were still quite a few cupcakes and sweet bread left over from the bakery (more on that story a bit later!), so I asked if I could buy them and we could hand them out to kids for free!   Because she is so well respected, we thought she was the only one who could hand them out in an orderly fashion!  She loved doing it for the kids, especially for free, but it was all she could do to keep them from going crazy-. I think it was the first time ever for something like this.  She is surrounded in front of the window in this pictures and is trying to organize the kids...Esther and I both got surrounded, but it was all in fun and love! Then someone brought out loudspeakers and it turned into a community dance fest! Singing, dancing and showing off their best moves!