Thursday 29 December 2011
Christmas present giving at Wikililye
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Coming to the end of 2011 with the Christmas presents for the children
It's been a while since the last blog and where to start now!! Maybe it better to start with the last event which was the giving of Christmas presents to the orphans and vulnerable children in the area of Wikililye, which is about 4kms from Kitui. The presents were food parcels consisting of rice, flour and cooking fat which cost about 800 Kenyan Shillings which is approx. €8. 178 children got a gift and the event was sponsored by Kitui Development Centre.
We had good fun preparing for the event ,loading up the jeep with huge bags of flour, rice and cooking fat and heading off to the shopping centre where the children were patiently waiting for us. Of course there is ceremony around every event in Kenya with it being started with a prayer followed by a few speeches, the chairperson and the representative of the sponsoring organization. I had the privilege of representing KDC and giving my speech through a combination of Swahili(the little I have) and English and then the distribution of the gifts. A long list had been drawn up and the children were called one by one and presented with the gifts. It was so wonderful to see the happiness on their little face and we got some wonderful photos also, they will appear on the gallery later when I succeed in accessing assistance with that . Food is so scarce and just imagine the delight in the children for this food and these children are ranging between 4 and 12 years of age !!!! It's a different world for some. So that was the Christmas gift giving for some of the orphans and vulnerable children, many of whom have been born with HIV.
Please do not forget that you can assist us by donating through Paypal on our site. Any monies we receive will be so much appreciated so please give whatever you can for our most vulnerable children in the world.
I wish you a very happy 2012. Bye for now.
Janet
We had good fun preparing for the event ,loading up the jeep with huge bags of flour, rice and cooking fat and heading off to the shopping centre where the children were patiently waiting for us. Of course there is ceremony around every event in Kenya with it being started with a prayer followed by a few speeches, the chairperson and the representative of the sponsoring organization. I had the privilege of representing KDC and giving my speech through a combination of Swahili(the little I have) and English and then the distribution of the gifts. A long list had been drawn up and the children were called one by one and presented with the gifts. It was so wonderful to see the happiness on their little face and we got some wonderful photos also, they will appear on the gallery later when I succeed in accessing assistance with that . Food is so scarce and just imagine the delight in the children for this food and these children are ranging between 4 and 12 years of age !!!! It's a different world for some. So that was the Christmas gift giving for some of the orphans and vulnerable children, many of whom have been born with HIV.
Please do not forget that you can assist us by donating through Paypal on our site. Any monies we receive will be so much appreciated so please give whatever you can for our most vulnerable children in the world.
I wish you a very happy 2012. Bye for now.
Janet
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