The school director, John, a Kenyan, asked me if we could stop by a villager’s home before returning to our hotel. The home belonged to six children whom the school has been sponsoring. John seemed to know that things may not be going well. Sure enough, the absent step-father who was an alcoholic was, indeed, absent. Further, the mother had become ill so the oldest daughter had taken her to the grandmother’s home and was nursing the mom there. This left six children abandoned at home for days with the oldest boy only 10 years old. It was easy to see how desperate the situation was just by looking at the palid, thin face of the youngest child: a two-year-old.
“How have you been eating?” John asked the older boy. “I go to my neighbors and beg for a little flour and then make a porridge with it for my brothers and sisters,” he replied. John went into action to make sure that the neighbors were given a little money to buy and prepare a real meal and look after these children for the next few days.
These are the types of children that the school in Bikeke is not only looking after but providing a quality education for!
To continue serving these needs, the school must have five acres of permanent land. We are currently looking at possible sites!
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