christmas on the streets!

christmas is here again and we always celebrate it differently with our friends on the streets. on monday, there was the party for the mothers on the streets and as usual, it was packed. some of our girls helped in eastleigh and they started by cleaning the babies. they all got new clothes and had a nice plate of pilau.
on tuesday we had two events taking place. we had a soccer tournament and a party for the small boys. as anthony, kennedy and i went to the field for the tournament, ann and rebecca remained behind with the boys. they had lots of fun with face painting, bouncing castles and lots of games.
for the past three years, we have had a soccer tournament with the boys and for the last two years, jam street base emerged winners.this time round, it was tougher than usual. we had teams coming from different bases, some we only came to know this year which meant that instead of two days, the tournament was three days long.we also entered our students in the games and they did very well coming in fourth. this year was very tough. we had one boy breaking his hand and anthony and i took him to the hospital. on the second day of the games, a fight broke out between some of the boys from jam street base and boys from mathare valley.later on the captain from jam street called swara(which means antelope in swahili. he was given that name because of his swift moves with the ball)came to apologize for the team's conduct an promised to control his team. the last day was calmer and we had the finals of the tournament.the boys had so much fun and because they got to meet boys from other bases, they asked if the tournaments could be twice a year instead of once.
we capped it all with a party for them where the soccer trophy and the medals for the first, second and third team was presented. they had food, music and they were also given clothes. the party attracted almost seven hundred boys from the streets. this crowned our christmas celebrations for this year which was a real success.

by phillipo.