Today, the three of us and Innocent went to a local school called Ruth Mother Care to do some digging in preparation for a new school building to be built. In future we will also be doing some teaching at this school but today was just digging!
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| Ruth Mother Care - Inside of old building |
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| Ruth Mother Care - Outside of old building |
We had our first Boda-boda ride, to get us to the school, which was really fun but slightly terrifying! Boda-bodas are motorbike taxis and the drivers are a bit crazy - although all the drivers around here are a bit crazy!
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| Ken and scary Kathryn with a machete! |
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| Me and Innocent |
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| Me and Kathryn |
When we arrived at the school the children started shouting and hugging us which was so lovely, they are primary school age and are really well behaved. Ruth, who runs the school, is great. She is firm with the children but is so kind and caring, and they never uses corporal punishment which is apparently very common in schools around here. For most of the day we were digging holes in the ground as the foundations for the structure of the new building. It was very dirty and REALLY HOT, but it was good to do some physical work and start on a new project. Tomorrow we will be finishing digging the holes so it is ready for a short-term team to come and build the structure next week.
Nice to see you practice digging, ready for Grancha's garden next year!
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