We traveled to Kisii to build a home for Josephine and her 3 kids - Douglas, Happynet, and Brenda. They were very excited about their new home and choo (pronounced cho - bathroom). The whole team got right in there hammering nails and building the walls with mud. It sometimes gets in places it is not intended, but that is half the fun. The ladies from the WEEP Center come out to help and it is finished in one day. We were also able to buy beds, blankets, mattresses, chairs, and a table - because of the great generosity of our supporters. Thank you! We also visited a greenhouse HEART donated to the Women's Widow Group and they are a pilot program for a solar water pump. The WEEP women each received blankets and food and they clapped and sang for joy. A simple gift from us and our supporters that makes a huge difference. Lastly, we visited a school that HEART supports and they sang for us and we were able to help them by providing exercise books for each child, for both math and English. God is good.
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| No matter where I go... I LOVE BABIES! :) |
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| Loading up the bus with furniture for the homes. |
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| The frame was ready, we just helped add the mud walls. |
We were so humbled by the thankfulness that surrounded the WEEP women. Josephine and her three children are now the proud owners of a two bedroom mud house with a tin roof. Our team's fundraising was able to fully furnish the house with two beds (one for the two older children and one for the mother, Josephine, and her toddler), two mattresses, four blankets, a small table, and four plastic chairs. Before this, they were living in her mother's small hut. THANK YOU for helping to provide a shelter and beds to sleep in for this wonderful family.
The second home that our team funded...
UPDATE from our Team Leader, John Johnson:
The second home that was completed was for Jen and her 3 kids - Lydia, Purity, and Brian. All 4 of them were living in the grandmother's kitchen before this new home was built. The woman in yellow is the grandmother. They were so happy to have beds for the first time and warm blankets for the cold winter weather. At the first home we built, Douglas said it would be so nice to sit in chairs! Some things we take for granted in the U.S. are things that make people here happy to have them. The small building in the picture is the choo (bathroom), which will have 2 bathrooms and one shower room. The picture of the pond is the WEEP women's fish pond. The women have been able to make a profit selling their extra vegetables from their greenhouse and using that money to buy fish. Fish is a favorite food here in Kenya and there are 2,200 fish in this pond! They will eat some and sell the rest and then buy more to raise. Sustainability is HEART's goal for these women and it is working. All together we were able to build the 2 homes and provide food and blankets for an additional 58 families, plus help out the school with writing books. One of Kenya's great treasures is its children and we love being able to give them a home and help with their education, all because of faithful people back home. Asante Sana (thank you).
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| Jen and her mother and three children. So happy! |
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| Fish pond in Kisii. |
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