Committees and updates

Different committees have been set by the team to discuss different budget and program for the December holidays. We have plans to make this festive season exciting for both our kids and those that live out on the streets. Shopping trips, family day(the students' guardians and family get to come to the farm for a visit), Christmas parties at the farm and parties in the streets, team and student retreat,-just to hang out, bond and rejuvenate; awards for the students who have not only excelled in class work, but also in spiritual and character building.
The Eastleigh tournament started yesterday, and so far, all is well. Teams form bases have registered for the tournament are working hard to be top.
We are still concerned about security and safety in Eastleigh, we are taking precautions with visiting bases, but normal street programs are still running.
Other incidences on the streets are violence and unrest at the bases. Reports from our team in Eastleigh say that, some base 'masters' came together and met to try and have peace between them and the Somalis. They went to the local authority (chief of Eastleigh North), and tried to ask of his help concerning security, but the chief encouraged them to take revenge and take law into their own hands.
So the local authorities within the slum areas are not helping or don't want to make it their business that there is peace on the streets and around the neighborhood.

Violence on the streets

For the past few weeks, street youths have experienced a series of fights, arguments and misunderstandings.

New buildings are coming up every month by the Somalis who are purchasing properties and investing in businesses. This pushes the street families out of their known niche.

We continually pray for spiritual and moral support for the Eastleigh team. They are the people that deal with such traumatic cases when this happens. Be it day or night. The street youths are fond of MITS, our center is the first place they recognize when there is tragedy amongst themselves. There is one such building that is already built near a base that we commonly visit, called Deliverance base. A fight came out just because the Somalis want the street families living on the dump site there to move away from there. The fights have become serious. Two have died and scores injured. MITS center at Eastleigh has been helping in to dress

the wounded and taking the injured to the hospital for stitches and medical examination. The injuries and cuts are so serious, deep cuts and several of the cases have their arteries cut and oozing blood out and one case, fingers hanging down held by only the skin. For these cases they can only be taken care of at the national referral hospital.

The local authorities too have recognized the sort of work we do for the streets.

Other news, Jackton recently took the Eastleigh Sunday school church kids for a treat, they loved it. Alot of money used for the cases came from the contributions made in the Eastleigh church,which is usually attended by people from the streets.The Eastleigh street church funded for the whole trip and expenses.