From the base to wood shop and gratitude in Kamulu

Joseph Kamau is a street boy whose base is Gaza base at Riverside  close to down town Nairobi.  His story is that he ran away from home 4 years ago when he was 9 years old. At that time they where staying in Naivasha town which is about 100 km away from Nairobi. He stole Kshs. 2000 (USD 20) from his father and that made him run away from home. Ever since his parents got separated. His father lives in Nakuru Town while his mother still lives in Naivasha town. He is now 12/13 years old and still a street boy at the Gaza Base. He told us that he would like to go back to school and learn but he can't go back to his parent because they will beat him badly for stealing money from his father.  We informed him of the Tuesday program for the boys of which he said that he will come. The challenges that he has is that the local authorities and police are on his neck because they don’t want street children around down town. This pushes him to do odd jobs at night and during the day sleep and hide himself in  abandoned construction site. We found all this out on Friday when the team went to Eastleigh,  for base work. Our thoughts are, we will have lots of younger street children on the streets.

By Jackton

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Busy week for wood working students, its their week for practical exams.
Our students are working on several small book-shelves and each of them is working on individual project. Each of them started out with only materials for working on their projects.

While doing their practicum, they should be able to use the table saw and the routing machine, the finishing should be done with water base paint.
They have all the measurements required for there projects after that we will grade them, then they will have their projects to keep!

 by Robin



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Thanks also to the Conways for their love and contribution through their friends and family for making life a lot better and beautiful for our kids. This shows they really care about the well-being and comfort of our kids at the farm. We have bought equipment and resources that help the team serve the kids better. The Skills Departments and Residential Halls both for boys and girls really appreciate these gestures.