Seasonal greetings from street guys!

From the beginning of this week the center at Eastleigh has been busy. Plans had been made to give all street families/youths a treat for the festive season. The team bought blankets, and bales of clothes. As always to complete the occasion that were running each day was a meal together.
Monday, all the mothers that have babies and live on the streets were invited to come with their kids and celebrate a meal and were given gifts for both mother and child. A good number of 50 mothers showed up, some with more that one child.
Tuesday was set for younger boys and young girls between the ages of 12-16yrs. They came in numbers, totaling to 96. They were taught some, and games were played, then a meal together. They were sent off on their way with gifts. Wednesday, both the team at Kamulu and in Eastleigh hit the streets to visit various bases within the city. We managed to distribute 100 blankets to almost three large family bases. They were so happy and were thankful because they were not expecting this gesture. In some bases the street youths were impressed that other institutions always buys them food but never think of life after the food. MITS was given a thumbs up for blessing them with blankets. I was impressed as one street boy showed his blanket from last year.
In one of the bases we found an organization that was helping to immunize young children against polio... this is encouraging since the govt is trying to offer services even to street families.
Thursday was a day we faced with uncertainty because we were dealing with older street men. Over the years they always come in large numbers, and always cause commotion and unrest. We had 240 men come in through our centers' gate, we closed the gate by 10.30am. Those found outside the gate started rumbling, shouting and yelling. We got done with the once inside and dismissed all. The once outside the gate were kept silent as we gave them food, and drinks. Then praises started again.
Of course this was expected. This time round the team decided to separated all street youth in groupings like this because we realized that when we mixed them up, the older ones would snatch whatever we give the younger once as gifts and sell them.
All in all, we are happy, streets families are happy.


December 16, we hold a parent/guardian day at Kamulu. The team has made sure that almost all parents or guardians of our kids make it for the event. We want them to understand what we are about and how their kids are progressing in different disciplines.