This morning was the visit to one of the school projects. I went with a group from UCL and Brenda who is the finance officer for Childreach. I have uploaded a couple of pictures onto facebook for people to see.
The kids are obviously use to people coming to visit. Even in the villages leading up to the school all the children come out their homes to wave at the buses. There are 650 kids at this school and 5 classrooms. Childreach paid for the classrooms to be refurbished, have built a well for clean water, toilets, and are in the process of building a kitchen and dining room.
The children sang, among other things, their national anthem to welcome us and the students brought toys for them to play with. The football was definitely the most popular.
A couple of girls got hold of my hands and nothing was going to tear them away. A number of small fights broke out when other children tried to come and break in. They speak a little english but not enough to converse easily. The whole thing was a little overwhelming, they fight for your attention and pull at your hair (they were especially taken with the girls with blonde hair). One of them did try to teach me how to count to 10 in swahili but I think I have forgotten already.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to go out to other projects next week.
