May 2010 Events

Last week we had a volunteering group come to our centre and did a thorough medical checkup on all our students. No major illnesses were found, advices was also given and some counselling to the students.

Ben is digging up a new fish pond, the current fish pond has close to 50 fishes. The one being dug is bigger in size than the current one.

He is using some of the older boys in doing this project.

We recently had a feast of corn (roasted and sausages) showing a great harvest this last two months.

A third dorm is being built to have bigger and wider room to give the boys more space. The dorm will consist of about 12 rooms, inclusive of a dorm supervisors' quarters. John Wambu is also currently constructing a skills training center at the 19acres for Welding and Agriculture respectively. The nursery school is runnng ok...we are getting more and more requestd from the community that they want to enrol their kids also into the nursery school. Skill students are also at their best, like the catering students bake cakes and make dishes such as pizza. They advertise themselves by selling their dishes occasionally to the community.

Eastleigh updates

There has been a very good response at the bases despite the rainy weather, also there were some arrests at Mlango kubwa base, and so most of the boys have moved to redeem base. It was reported that some robbers were stealing from motorist and that they would run to Mlango and hide themselves among the streets boys.

This month, the number of mothers and children has increased. The reason being children are on holidays(recess from schooling). We have been having a maximum number of 45 mothers and 90 children respectfully. The same case applies to the boys' program on Tuesdays and Fridays.

There is some improvement especially in the office area, kitchen and mothers dorms. The walls and the floors of the office have been renovated and looks better with new seats. The kitchen and the dorms have been fitted with new shelves.

On Wednesdays the 28th, there was a football match between Kamulu and Jam streets base boys. The jam streets boys won the match against Kamulu. On 29th April there was a tournament for all the bases. A joint team from kijiji, seventh and Twelfth Street won the medal followed by kijiji taking second postion.