Well our time in beautiful Africa is drawing to an end. Everyone had a fantastic time this morning going on home visits and delivering gifts to the families.
You have never seen such excitement when we produced a soccer ball. Kids came from all around the village to play with it. These kids play with a ball that is made out of plastic bags. Something so simple made the whole village happy.
We also took things like bubbles, crayons, colouring books and rice and flour. The families were so grateful for the gifts and for the sponsorship of their child.
Brad and I went to Raja's house again to let him know that Brad was going to be his new sponsor. His sponsor had pulled out the week before. So now Brad is his sponsor and I am his boarding room sponsor. The family fed us Ginger tea and a special meal that is a delicousy for the family, and we felt very honoured to be having it.
They then took us to show us their house that they are building. So far it has taken them 5 years to build and they do not believe it will be completed for another 5 years. Can you imagine waiting that long for your home, especially when your whole family (6 people) and grandma all live in a two room hut. The problem is that there are no loans and they can only get work done to their "dream home" as they save up money.
Mary and Sharkie also took on half sponsorship each of a little boy called Micki Daddi. Ruth and Peter took on the sponsorship of a girl who us the youngest of 9 kids and her name is Beatrice and Linda took on the sponsorship of a young Masai girl. They will have lots of stories to tell you all.
After we all returned to St Judes we said our goodbyes and then jumped on the school bus and headed off to the cultural centre to have a look around. We then went back to Shangas again to spend a leisurely afternoon eating, drinking and relaxing before our big trip home.
We arrived early at Kilimanjaro Airport after being told that we had all been wiped off the system (for no apparent reason). Apparently it happens quite a lot at this airport. Anyway, thanks to the wonderful Jo from St Judes who took a drive to the airport to sort our tickets, we got on the plane and then headed for Nairobi airport.
Nairobi Airport works completely at it's own pace. When we got to the Transfer desk we were told that the man was on "a break" and told us to just wait! After about 20 minutes he slowly walked into the desk area and proceeded to check us in. Everything here works slowly and at it's own pace and there is just no hurrying them!
It's 9.40 pm now and we are sitting in Nairobi Airport. Our plane is due to leave here at 10.30 pm, then we fly to Dubai and Bangkok and then finally Sydney getting in hopefully around 7.15 am on Sunday morning. Home Sweet Home!
Hugs,
Donna
You have never seen such excitement when we produced a soccer ball. Kids came from all around the village to play with it. These kids play with a ball that is made out of plastic bags. Something so simple made the whole village happy.
We also took things like bubbles, crayons, colouring books and rice and flour. The families were so grateful for the gifts and for the sponsorship of their child.
Brad and I went to Raja's house again to let him know that Brad was going to be his new sponsor. His sponsor had pulled out the week before. So now Brad is his sponsor and I am his boarding room sponsor. The family fed us Ginger tea and a special meal that is a delicousy for the family, and we felt very honoured to be having it.
They then took us to show us their house that they are building. So far it has taken them 5 years to build and they do not believe it will be completed for another 5 years. Can you imagine waiting that long for your home, especially when your whole family (6 people) and grandma all live in a two room hut. The problem is that there are no loans and they can only get work done to their "dream home" as they save up money.
Mary and Sharkie also took on half sponsorship each of a little boy called Micki Daddi. Ruth and Peter took on the sponsorship of a girl who us the youngest of 9 kids and her name is Beatrice and Linda took on the sponsorship of a young Masai girl. They will have lots of stories to tell you all.
After we all returned to St Judes we said our goodbyes and then jumped on the school bus and headed off to the cultural centre to have a look around. We then went back to Shangas again to spend a leisurely afternoon eating, drinking and relaxing before our big trip home.
We arrived early at Kilimanjaro Airport after being told that we had all been wiped off the system (for no apparent reason). Apparently it happens quite a lot at this airport. Anyway, thanks to the wonderful Jo from St Judes who took a drive to the airport to sort our tickets, we got on the plane and then headed for Nairobi airport.
Nairobi Airport works completely at it's own pace. When we got to the Transfer desk we were told that the man was on "a break" and told us to just wait! After about 20 minutes he slowly walked into the desk area and proceeded to check us in. Everything here works slowly and at it's own pace and there is just no hurrying them!
It's 9.40 pm now and we are sitting in Nairobi Airport. Our plane is due to leave here at 10.30 pm, then we fly to Dubai and Bangkok and then finally Sydney getting in hopefully around 7.15 am on Sunday morning. Home Sweet Home!
Hugs,
Donna
You guys left Australia as wonders to us all and you have returned inspirational legends!!! Congratulations on such a successful endeavour. Glad to hear that everyone is safe, sound and hopefully now well. I imagine that there will be some celebrated kissing of the ground at lovely sea level where the oxygen is a plenty!!!!
ReplyDeleteBig hugs and congrats to you all!
Gai Ellerington
P.S. Donna - can't wait to hear all about St Jude's
Hope you all had a safe trip. We admire you all very much.
ReplyDeleteLove and take care Uncle Ron and JOh