Remember when...

Kimani

Remember when you were a little child and you were sitting down at the dinner table being cranky and ornery because your mom was making you eat your green beans and you didn't want to finish the green beans on your plate!  Either because you weren't hungry or you wanted to be stubborn and frustrate your mom, so you didn't eat all of your food. Then your mom seeing the stubbornness in your face says out of frustration, "There are starving children in Africa!"

I met those starving children in Africa today. They are the most loving, caring, happy, humble children i have ever met!!! We walked around their village/ slum today called Namatala. And all they wanted to do was hold the Muzungo's (whit persons) hand or touch their skin and follow us around. They wanted us to take pictures of them so that they could look at it on the screen and find the face that matches theirs. We walked for 2 hours in the village and met with the people there and saw what the previous Help volunteers had done. They put in water filters that helped many people in the village not get effected by the cholera outbreak that happened in February. We are looking to find more donors for water filters.

We also talked with a few of the woman that had been given small grants to start their own business's. It was great to hear their success stories.

But the thing that hit the most was the children... running around in rags, playing with the smallest pieces of trash as toys, and getting the biggest joy of watching the flash go off on a camera. It was overwhelming to see people living in such humble circumstances. But empowering at the same time because no matter what their circumstances are, just getting a wave from a muzungu brings a smile to their face. And when you see their incredibly beautiful dark faces matched with their pearly white teeth grin. i think.... Ah, there is no where in the world i would rather be, then walking through this filthy dirt road with the greatest people i have ever met.

So i remember when my mom use to tell me about the children in Africa and how they are starving, and now i think, yep, there are a lot of starving children in Africa, and I love them and i hope to be able to make a difference in the lives of a few of them, because they have already made a difference in mine!!!!

                           

                          Kimani was learning the eskimo kiss  :) 

They love to smile

The one being held would not let her put her down.

This is a normal thing for them to have cows just walking down the road...