Teacher Workshop and Water Tank Installation

On Thursday and Friday of this week, we wrapped up and began some new projects.  On Thursday, I gave a workshop to 2 teachers with another volunteer.  The workshop focused on Montessori-based activities they could consider including in the curriculum at the Kimuka Pre-School and also literacy instruction ideas.  We also recommended the teachers begin splitting the students up more frequently because there is such a wide range of ages and maturity within the class.  Another volunteer, a nutritionist, has some special breakfast mixes she will be cooking for the students and she has volunteered to weigh and measure all of them so we can begin to monitor their growth more closely. Other volunteers collected our money and went out to buy all of the supplies so that we could install a water tank at the Iyarat "Pre" School.

On Friday, we dug and laid the cement foundation for the water tank.  If you see the photos of the water we are collecting to mix the cement, this is the same water that they were/are using for drinking, cooking and washing hands! After a long morning of manual labor, we took a long ride to a mall outside of Nairobi to do some shopping and get a late lunch- such a different world!  In the morning, in a place of extreme poverty and then the afternoon in an expensive shopping mall, complete with KFC!  While there, we bought a selection of different Kenyan liquors and took them all home to have some chupita taste tests and a lil dance party.