22nd september 07

St Peters School
22nd September 07

Dedication of some books to St Peters School Meru

Last Saturday I had the opportunity to go with a couple of friends, to this school with some books, promoting reading and sharing with the school children as well as with the Staff.
St Peters is in the rural parts of Meru, as we were travelling along the dusty sandy roads for about 20minutes from Kaaga, I noticed a difference from Kaaga, the houses were different, and the people living there in the community, had to go and fetch water from a pit, the only water supply in the village, plus no electricity although we did see a few new wires overhead – which according to Fridah weren’t there the last time she visited.
When we approached, the children were outside waiting with eager, especially when they saw Kate and I two white people they kept coming up to us asking our names, and where we were from, also amazed that I was from the UK and Kate from America.
Our project for the day was to promote, sharing and making reading fun. We assigned ourselves to whichever age group we wanted, – I took class 3 (5-6 yrs) I read them 2 stories 1 was an action one which meant them moving from their desks, they laughed and we had fun. Then we sang few songs in English and Kiswahili. Allowed me to tape so i can play it to all of you, also few photos to share.
Then we came together and the dedication of the books to the school took place, their smiles and gratutide was awesome to see and quite touching. We class it as something small and take for granted, but not hapa(here).

Tried grinding porridge by hand

After lunch we were shown where they made porridge by hand, both kate and I had a go – hard work using a wooden slab to push the porridge slowly, and not lumpy without spilling – opps i spilt alittle but after that kept trying.
I think I’ll keep it to the machine hapa (here) at the home – talk about back ache.!!
Good laugh we were the centre of laughter staff aswell as the team, which we came along with.

I take this opportunity to asantesana Fridah and the staff /children at St Peters for this opportunity.