Kens' story

NAME: Kennedy Owino

AGE: 18 years old

 (An essay written by Ken, pictured is George and Ken receiving towels From Larry Conway)

BEST EXPERIENCES IN MITS

My first experience in MITS was in the year 2006, it was my first time to go on a camp and I really loved it, because where we were camping at was in the middle of the jungle, and it was in Nakuru and it was really fun to be there.

So every came out of the bus pitch tents prepare dinner, ate and slept. The next morning we woke up went to look for water that we will use for making chai/tea, and then while we were walking suddenly we heard a sound from a far, and so we decided to walk after it and we found that it was a water fall.

Everyone was happy and excited about it, and by the way it was very clean, and with no waste of time we fetched some for making tea, lunch, and dinner, and then from there some washed their clothes, shoes, bed sheets, towels, and everything, and some even went ahead and washed themselves from it because of the long journey that we had that day. The lunch was ready, and we went to eat, it was very delicious that I can’t even let a piece of meat to go off my plate.  The cooks that we had at that time were very good in cooking, they were imported from China and others U.S.A.

 

It was afternoon everyone is full and just relaxing, then few minutes later Mr. Mbuvi requested everyone to get on the bus, then we took a ride into the other areas to watch the wild animals. On our way Mbuvi drove across lionesses and he stopped the bus, everyone took a good look at them, and again we asked Mbuvi drive a little closer so that we can watch them nicely.  They were five of them and big ones, Mbuvi hooted at them and even went ahead to a point of getting his feet out of the bus to see if they can do anything about it. But by good luck these lionesses were full so they did nothing to us. 

But the point of all this was just to hear them doing the roaring, but unfortunately nothing happened. So Mbuvi was disappointed.

So we drove back and kept watching giraffes, antelopes, warthogs, buffaloes, and others. So the night came, and everyone was happy about what they saw during day time. And then we prepared everything that was needed for dinner, then we started telling stories about what we saw on other side away from the camp.

After some time thirty minutes later, food got ready and we were cold to eat, so they served us and everyone started eating.

Now everyone has finished eating, and some have gone to sleep, so we remained like ten people, so we decided to make coffee for the remaining guys which are there. And then after that, we started telling stories again but this time it was funny things that we did in Kamulu. Then suddenly we saw shiny and flashy things like torches, and everyone was like what is that person doing over there, and I replied to them “those are not people with torches, those are lion’s eyes.”  We are running for the sake of running because we are confused and don’t know whether to get in the tents or bus, so all us decided on the bus. And remember these lions are the ones that Mbuvi disturbed during the ride that we took on the day time. So it’s like they were revenging.

Note: Ken is at the stage of exiting...he was computer skills training. One of his talents is drawing, designing. We have used his various artistic designs on some of our t-shirts, and labelling of signs for MITS. pray he get a good placement on intern ship and starts his life spiritually and with contentment. He is always enthusiastic about everything. 

John in class

John Wambu is our foreman here at Made in the streets. Meaning he was there at the very beginning, helped secure most of our property out here at Kamulu. Well since John was and has an interesting in history about how he met the church of christ, I decided to invite him to my History class. He started by giving his life story and of his past.

So he starts by explaining to the class that he was a gangsta, and am like YEAH! Awesome!...which reminds me that, he understand the background from which our kids come from...He organized crimes all over Kenya, he once was a wanted man, dead or alive, moved from hotel to slum area a lot to hide out from other gangs or the police. He says the law back then was, kill or be killed. He combines this historic periods of his life with the Church, which is kind of cool. It was the church that turned him from his wicked way.
He explains how life was like back then in the 70s and 80s...how the economy was still tough but manageable. John gives a randon salary would go for KSH.800(USD10)...rent would go for like KSH 75 - 100(USD 1)...this meant that one was living the life.
John also touched on some historical figures, the first president and how he ruled, the second president and his tenure...but did some sort of damage to the country, but John was still positive that despite the hardship and his lifestyles, he still had the church to fall back to.
So he winds up encouraging the class that despite hardship, we should not let our terrible past determine what we are to become in the future. But still learn from the past and not make similar mistakes...because God is watching and determines our destiny by how we serve Him.
A student asked John at the end of class, "How come you are almost light skinned and, what in the world happened to you leg?",...John smiled and said, "now that is a story for another time"...Sweet!!!