Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Businesses

The MITS Tea and Coffee house is open and business is good. The purpose of this cafe is to give our students practical experience in an on-going business. They are learning how to prepare food in the actual pressured situation and how to treat our customers. Margaret Njeri and Mary Waithera area enjoying this experience at present.

Our wells are extremely important. In Kamulu, unless you have a well, you must buy water for your home or business. Kamulu is in the Nairobi City limits, but as yet there is no city water, etc. Plus, there is a water shortage in Kenya. In Eastleigh where our other center is and in Runda where many Americans live, the city water is provided only for one and one-half days! This just points out how valuable our wells are. We thank many people in Nashville for the Shanon water well, and thanks to others in Conejo Valley,California, for the other well. The Shanon well provides water for the boys' dorm, irrigation for 10 acres, the girls' dorm, their garden, the Learning Centre, our shopping center, and staff members living nearby. The other well is at the Technical Skills and farm (20 acres). It is here that we are planning new irrigation lines; Kevin Colvette from Otter Creek church in Nashville came with a friend of his from work to help with this. We appreciate visitors so very much! We also appreciate the container that arrived; in it were many irrigation supplies.

This is a picture of two of the catering students who are attached to the cafe; they are cooking chapati. Sarah is looking at the camera. Eliza (Laurent's wife) is supervising them.

Victor

1 comment:

Hawkeye fan said...

Hi Victor. Thanks for the update on how the businesses are doing. I missed being able to go for lunch to the Tea House last fall when we were there. I hope the business serves the community well and makes a few shillings ofor mits.