As you may have gathered with this influx of posts - don't worry I am unlikely to keep it up.
I finally got a SIM card today that I need for the dongle to plug into my laptop. Luckily AnnKaterina one of the other girls is technically minded as I am not. I've spent the last few days having more inductions and also been on 2 school runs to drop the last 3 boys at school. Of the last intake only 3 were left and have all been taken to boarding school. They look very smart in their uniforms although they polished their shoes with one of thye volunteers while cardigans that she left lying around. It's a proud moment for the staff and emotional (not that they show it). The next intake of boys from the street starts on Monday so it will be interesting to see how different they are to these I've just met.
They've each been taken to different schools so that they make new friends and don't stick together and all are all 1 - 2 hours from Thika. It's very green here and we are in the hills, so it's tea plantation area. There are lots of women picking tea leaves with huge baskets on their backs
Today I also went to visit one of the micro finance groups who were given the next installment of their loan. There are 5 women in the group and they live in mud huts about an hour from Thika on a bus. They have to pay back each loan before they are given a new one and these women wre selling fruit from the wholesalers to the market. There are no white people here and a baby cried when she saw me - which was nice!
The buses are incredibly crowded and every time they stop sellers get on which pineaplle, tomatoes, corn, water, carrots etc It's a very conservative culture here in terms of dress sense (no showing knees) but the kenyans practically sit on each others laps on the bus - I don't get it.
It's been a good few days in terms of learning what AfCiC do, hopefully it will help a lot when I get to the accounts.
I finally got a SIM card today that I need for the dongle to plug into my laptop. Luckily AnnKaterina one of the other girls is technically minded as I am not. I've spent the last few days having more inductions and also been on 2 school runs to drop the last 3 boys at school. Of the last intake only 3 were left and have all been taken to boarding school. They look very smart in their uniforms although they polished their shoes with one of thye volunteers while cardigans that she left lying around. It's a proud moment for the staff and emotional (not that they show it). The next intake of boys from the street starts on Monday so it will be interesting to see how different they are to these I've just met.
Nicholas at his new school - no uniform though
Today I also went to visit one of the micro finance groups who were given the next installment of their loan. There are 5 women in the group and they live in mud huts about an hour from Thika on a bus. They have to pay back each loan before they are given a new one and these women wre selling fruit from the wholesalers to the market. There are no white people here and a baby cried when she saw me - which was nice!
The buses are incredibly crowded and every time they stop sellers get on which pineaplle, tomatoes, corn, water, carrots etc It's a very conservative culture here in terms of dress sense (no showing knees) but the kenyans practically sit on each others laps on the bus - I don't get it.
It's been a good few days in terms of learning what AfCiC do, hopefully it will help a lot when I get to the accounts.
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