Eastleigh updates!

Four young men from different bases have been baptized. including one girl. The baptisms were done on the 24th of March.
Two new students from the streets have been enrolled in skills training at a local college (PCEA-Vocational training center). They will be training in dressmaking and hairdressing. They expressed the desire to change their lives and thus are in these skills respectively. As of now we are having problem with the student that were enrolled in Auto Mechanic skill. Three of the boys are complaining that now they want just to learn how to drive and not the lesson taught in class, they claim that teachers are not coming to classes and that understanding English language is challenging for them. So they have stopped attending classes.
Every Monday there is a mother's program at the Eastleigh center. They have been having beauty, therapy and hairdressing. All this has been initiated by Susan Wambui our student who is at the exiting stage. Susan also had invited a beauty college found in town to come and work in liaison with her as she did this exercise on the mothers from the streets. Susan has also been of great help in all Eastleigh programs.
There was a couples retreat on the 12th March to the Arboretum, this is a great picnic site and a place to help meditate. The couples enjoyed the retreat, there was a total of 14 couples present on that day.
A Wednesday evening fellowship has been started at the center. The bases have all been invited to always attend especially those newly born again to help them strengthen their new found faith.
Trouble has been brewing on two of bases that we always visit and is close to us as MITS. A serious fight between rounda base guys and 12th streets base guys took place on the third week of March. The fight was so serious that we had to hire a taxi to take one of the injured boys to the hospital. Other boys who had minor injuries were given first aid treatment by Kennedy at the center. Nicholas, who is the older brother to our own Ken Wambugu was admitted to the national hospital and is still recovering from his injuries.