Dont just stand and wait, do something!

One may think there is great different the poor and the rich. But to me it depends on how one is able to use what God has given us. That means God has given every one a talent to make forth the profit. Having no rain does not mean we would be accountable to give the result of the farm. We have to do something. This makes me tosay thank you for all our visitors who have been coming to M.I.T.S. You have been a blessing to me and to us in the ministry, and mostly in the area of farming. It is due you and others that we can use the materials and the skill that we have gotten from you. With God’s help we will not give up until we see we have put our farm to the state we want it to be.

When the game become tough change the way you play it, Could be it may make a difference. And that's why you can see the changes in the farm despite the drought, sunny and hot days of the month we have been having. And for this we say thanks be to God.

By Ben

Farm manager.

Woodshop update

Wood shop is one of the interesting place for one to work in, we have Evans, James, Paul who are on their basics as starters and they are showing a lot of interest and determination in all that they do. We have some projects we are working on 2 kitchen cabinets and sink cabinet and the new students are working on the some few cutting boards.The catering section for the Connor Brown building is now set with all the cabinets that they require.

Sunday school has also been full of joys having kids coming to hear the word of God and having them open up and listen to their opinions about Jesus and Christianity has taught me so much lesson. The kids are happier learning new stuff and life and the bible.

The boys have always tried to be at their best behavior. Counseling, talking to the the about their progresses in class, life and maybe their future plans is really encouraging. Focus is their main goal and we keep insisting on Godliness.

By Robin

Looks like a good year for our street friends!

This month as we went to the streets with Larry, Ouma and Mbuvi, we realized that we have quite a presence in the streets and they street guys have no excuse that we are not there for them. Its always rewarding to note that we are realizing the positive impact of all that we have been doing in the streets for all this time, taking a good shape. Those who went for training last year are different people who have hope now that they can have a good life. Out there, the guys always have excuses that we have not done this and that, but this time around everything has been set out for them, the ball is in their court to accept and embrace the opportunities that God has lied for them. The team helping us to get IDs for these street guys have extended a big help to us to continuously help us secure IDs for them.This will open a lot of opportunities for the street people as well as to our students. For the past two months, we have been able to secure IDs for all the four students that didn't have sufficient documents to do so. If you had asked me if this was possible last year, I would have answered," not in a million years". And yet God is making it possible, even at this time when things are hard for most people all around the world.

By Joel

Re-opening tea and coffee house

Tea and coffee house shops was re-opened, and the first three days of operating the business turn up was impressive and encouraging. I would like to share with you all this comment that I heard one of the customers who came into our shop for the first time, said that he has not seen a clean hotel like ours with ample sitting space and with delicious meals around this locality of Kamulu. And also with the introduction of variety of meals has brought more new customers to the shop, we have a special meal which we are hoping to start at the last Saturday of the month and see how the customer will respond to this new idea.
The introduced snacks are Samosa, Bhajia, Dough nuts, omelet and also to be added on the list is Chips (French fries), sausage and a variety of juice.
Uniform shop has not had a lot of business as last month, and I can say that this is the month of low business. Re-opening of the tea and coffee house has also acted as marketing strategic way for the other businesses on the shops complex. Eunice has continued to open the shop even though business is low and i have made flier's to be distributed to the community and traveling people on Matatus as a marketing way of the products and services offered at the MITS shops.
We have also stocked the shop with different school uniforms such as Jubilant, Grandmak, Josper, Ngundu, Twin birds, and vick-merry respective schools in this community.
Salon too during the week has minimal customers and Maggie is focusing with teaching the skills students. and when the customers comes in the shop the skills students work along with her on offering services to the clients.
Computer shop business was fare this month with currently having to students from the community coming to learn packages.
Shanon water sales also continuing to offer water sales to the customers on both the water selling points at the shops area and the boys complex.










By Victor

News about the salon

This month I have Mercy Kisya, Mary Muthoni and Eunice Wambui who are learning hairdo and working at the same time. Mercy and Mary spend most of the time at the salon since Eunice helps partly at the uniform shop.
In our lesson we learned how to shampoo different textures of hair and I am glad because my students can do clients hair without supervision or even whenever am busy attending to a different client.
I took Susan Wambui for a medical check up at the hospital and when I came back I was amazed to find that Mary Muthoni was braiding and Mercy Kisya was shampooing a clients hair (Susan is doing great). It was a good start and I complimented them and encouraged them to continue with the same spirit and the confidence they had. The results was so perfect and the clients were so satisfied with the work done, they also brought back a new client.


By Maggy

social studies

I thank God so much being back from my maternal leave for He blessed us with a gift of a baby girl-Angel Amaria. I also thank the team members for their co-operation.
I found new subjects added in the program and was assigned to teach Bible and the Social Studies which is quite an interesting subject which has so much to learn about our day to day life and how to live safe in the society. In my social studies with literacy one class, I taught them how to draw and name the parts of a bicycle, drawing the road signs and this was an interesting lesson because it jogged the student's minds when drawing and also learned to name the bicycle parts.
The following day all the students were able to name at least eight parts of the bicycle and also drew some of the road signs.

by Renee Mbithe.

Container update

Francis has been working on the arrival of the container, though it is a lot of processes, he still succumbs. The container is in Nairobi Depot, all that remains are the clearance forms. It takes 8 working days for a container to be cleared, but for some reasons of documentation that has to be done in respective offices concerned, this is delaying. A letter of clearance has to be presented in the Revenue offices. This is bureaucracy. We have already recieved a letter informing us that the container is in the Depot. Francis went to their offices yesterday and the guy involved in passing all the letter of cleareance to the revenue office never showed up.

a touch of love!

Valentine passed just weeks ago and I always remember 2007 when a date nite was organized for all the kids and staff and the kids got to have an experience of how a date is like so that they could understand that it is not just a day when chocolates and flowers are passed on from couples but it is a day that we get to tell the people closest to us how much we appreciate them. It was truly a good day and everyone had fun that night.
Talking of love, every time Darlene and Charles are here with us, they ALWAYS tell us about friends who love us in the states and we always feel good to know we have so many people who care about us. Sometimes I feel like I want to teleport myself to every one so that I can tell them how much we appreciate the prayers, the support, the confidence in us and just being there for us.
We got a major boost from Hollye and Larry Conway in our literacy classes after we got learning and teaching materials for our classes. This will really help us especially in our new classes that we started this year like our Science, Social Studies and Swahili classes and the kids cannot wait to start using the new books and materials. We are truly thankful for everyone who made this possible for us because I know that without you, the vision that we have for these kids would not be possible. oh and by the way......jars of clay are in Kenya and we got to attend their concert this past Sunday and my feet are still hurting from all the jumping and dancing......again initiated by the Conways.

by phillipo.

New look for students!

Thanks to Larry and Hollyie Conway, we have new look for our students, instead of buying the old jeans, t-shirts; Francis asked the students to go out into the open market and purchase, decent lookiing clothes. Boys boughts suits, shirts, long trousers. Girls bought blouses, skirts. With so much gratitude of handling their own money, they went out and did just that...

The next morning the kids we re so neat, we felt so proud.

As we await for the uniforms, from Jackton' sewing plant, the kids are still so ever eager, because what will come next is shoes, decent looking black leather shoes for all students. You can just imagine how the MITS community will look like in the next few weeks.

The Tea House was re-opened today. Laurent and Elizabeth and some of the catering students are hard at work, other special foods have been added to the menu. Victor will tell us more about their plans and expactations for the Tea House.

Ben has started planting seedlings on the further side of the 7acre, he says the rains have been unpredictable but that cant stop him, he works daily with the students on the farm to make yeield of their efforts.

Francis is having a high hopes towards the container making it to Kamulu in the next two weeks, we pray ever so hard for this to happen...

New faces!

We are happy to have found some new girls in Kamulu. Ann Wambui is 14 yrs old. The eastleigh team found her in 'Grogon' base. She is a very tough and outgoing girl. She left home due to family dispute. She enjoys reading and making friends. Abusive language and bad jokes are among her least favorite things.
Ann Njoki is 15 yrs old. She decided to come to Nairobi after her grandmothers death, who was the sole breadwinner. She was found in a catholic church where she went for meals. Ann is very quiet. What she enjoys most is peace and sharing with friends. Conflicts breaks her heart.
Jane Njoki, is 15 yrs, she likes it here a lot, she has been through a lot and says she is saved, God was her soul provider while out on the struggling wither her gurdians. She is the first born in their home of four kids. Her Father does not want anything do with her, but she say she met him occasionally. The whereabouts of her mom are not known since she was a child.
I pray that they will have the patience to stay with us till the time is ripe for them to face the world on their own again, but with better knowledge of how to face situations in a more mature and Godly way.
We lost two, kids we gained two, what a blessing in a way...

Irene Otalo

Mary Anderson, Sewing Plant

On this very month the sewing plant has been very busy on meeting the demands of the customers, both at the shop and school orders such as MITS & Rafiki. We made 42 shirts, 21 shorts, 21 dresses, 11 ties and 21 sweaters for Rafiki school .Rafiki has give us another order of 3 trousers, 7skirts for secondary school and one sweaters . We have started making the orders of made in the streets, which is a lot. Also we have been filling on the orders that come at the shop; so far the schools that we have made uniforms for are as follows. Rafiki, MITS, Ngu’ndu, Josper, jubilant, grand mark, blue hills.

Eunice is working hard at the shop selling the uniforms. Though the teacher’s strike it did not affect so much since the parents knew that after all the kids will go to school, so it was just a time for them to do shopping. And also most schools at our area are private; the strike did not affect the private schools.

As of now the number of product sold are 37. 11 dresses, 8 shirts, 6 shorts, 6 socks, 2 sweaters, 2 skirts, 1 P.E short and 1 P.E T-shirt. Excluding the orders from Rafiki School.

(The said school above are local institutions found in the Kamulu community, i.e Rafiki, Josper, Jubilant, GrandMark and Bluehills)

This month MITS has help Olive with 10000/= shillings so that she can go for breast lump surgery.

(Olive is one of the workers in the sewing plant)

Jackton Omondi