This is what the Kupenda office looked like in Kenya in 2007.
This is what the office looks like newly repainted.
This was our team for the 2009 trip.
The AFC Doc poster in the Kupenda office in Kenya!
Organizing our supplies
The newly painted Gede School
This was Patt and Adam constructing classrooms at the Gede School in 2007.
These are what the classrooms look like in 2009!
Somehow the classrooms they helped to build are where people keep their bikes...
Reuniting with the kids
This little girl, Neema, has a spine deformity. The Kenyans did not realize it could be corrected. Hopefully, we can get her evaluated by a mobile clinic to see if we can fundraise for corrective surgery.
Neema once again
Tracy and Neema
This was Niko in 2007.
This is dapper Niko in 2009!
Faith and Nuru in 2007.
Faith and Nuru in 2009!
Showing the kids our pictures of them from 2007.
Gladys and Kache.
Nuru's little brother
Baraka. His blue eyes are a symptom of his syndrome which makes him hearing impaired.
Lynne with the kids.
This year we participated in a "Volunteer Day" in which community members came out and helped to clean up the school and learn how they could help children with special needs.
Holly painting the classrooms on Volunteer Day.
Volunteer Day
Sidewalk chalk!
Making paper masks
Parachute games!
Singing for Volunteer Day
Speeches for Volunteer Day
The glow bracelets during our movie night! We projected "Finding Nemo" on the wall of the school.
Learning to drive on the "other" side of the road.
What the road looks like on some of our home visits....
This is Pili. She was left alone with no adult supervision--without food, water, or medication. She was actually catching grasshoppers to assuage her hunger.
Giving supplies to Pili.
Trying to decide how to get Pili in the school.
Another home visit we made to try to get a child with cerebral palsy in one of our schools.
Notice the notches on the sides of the trees for climbing!
In 2007 we made a home visit to Neema to get her in a school.
I was so happy when I stumbled upon Neema this year at the Marafa School!
Patt and Adam opening the boarding facility they raised money to build in 2007.
The boarding facility in 2009.
It is now furnished with beds and is home to many students.
This is where the bathrooms are, but they cannot be used due to water shortages in the area.
There is currently a need for a boarding facility for the older boys. The one that they are staying in now is falling apart and is condemned.
Cracks in the wall.
The ceiling is caving in.
A classroom at the Marafa School.
Trying to fit shoes.
The kids in the flip flops we gathered. Tracy and Holly actually gave some of the children the shoes right off their feet since we were low on bigger sizes.
One of our students in her new school.
Due to the recent teacher's strike in Kenya, the students had been sent home temporarily. Unfortunately, Haidiga's father did not bother to take her back to school when the strike was over. Therefore, we visited her at home, only to find her half dressed with an empty cup and no water, food, or parents.
Cindy cleaning off Haidiga with wet wipes.
Haidiga is now walking due to the physical therapy she has received through Kupenda in the past year.
How Haidiga was found in 2007.
Haidiga and I in 2007.
Leonard carrying Haidiga to the car.
Taking Haidiga back to school. She didn't stop smiling for days!
No more room in the car = Holly and Lauren in the trunk!
Another home visit to a child with cerebral palsy.
Working in the Cerebral Palsy classroom.
Tracy was able to adapt materials for some of the lower functioning CP students.
Jeremy making tracks with his walker.
Holly working with the mentally impaired students at the Sir Ali School.
Anthony---Kupenda's first college graduate!
Tracy and I with Nelson, who worked with Patt and Adam in the past. Recently his wife died due to a common illness for which they could not afford medication. Kupenda is trying to hire him as a worker.
A trip to the beach at the end of the day.
