first few weeks in march

Let me first congratulate the KCPE results of our 3 Form 4 students 1 got a C 1 got a C+ and the other 1 got a B also one of these children has passed his driving test – help the roads of Kenya (only joking)

We have had an altogether intake amount of 23 children in to the home, which makes a total number of 55 children at Meru Children’s Home (when they are all here).

Wow what a month it has been so far it started with board meetings, myself being ‘mum’ by taking the new children to school and going to pay school fees from the home, as well as mid term holidays for the High school pupils. Getting up at 6am to give out medication to the children who are sick great sun rises here and then again in the evenings.

I had an opportunity to visit another local school briefly with the CEO and another member of the MKM board to see how the MKM Foundation can help them we are looking at building toilets and rebuilding a classroom for the school, we had a meeting with the rest of the MKM Board and put forward our proposal as well as a community library based at one of the local school these were confirmed.

During this 1st week of March up to Saturday (8th) I wasn’t feeling to good, so on Saturday I went to the doctors and I was diagnosed again with Malaria but this time it was more than before and it was diagnosed as Malaria Positive (+), I was given some medication and now I’m on the mend. I know a friend named John informed me before I came, to take the stronger anti-malarial tablets but being slightly asthmatic I was given ‘Doxycycline’ which here isn’t recognised as anti – malaria!!! Please take this into consideration if you come to Africa.
So in this case I thank God for keeping me healthy and strong.

This last week wow again a manic week with paper work, meetings, visitors also unfortunately one of members of staff had a death in the family so we had to work around that, the funeral is taking place on Wednesday.
Saturday just gone 2 of the older children and I visited 4 pupils from our home at their School for a parents meeting AGM. Majority of it in English so I understood, but the pupils I saw wow they complained, complained and complained due to what was cooked for them and things they don’t have so I’ve passed on their complaints to the administrator for him to handle.