Today some of the children of our co-op visited Amani Primary School in Riruta. The school is a part of the Precious Blood Family of Schools. Amani Primary School was started in 1987 with the goal of helping the poor children in Kawangware slum, a slum of Nairobi. It started with a meal program and then expanded to offer Bible studies, English, Kiswahili and mathematics. Some of the children attending Amani Primary School are street children and orphans. The school's vision is to see these young people develop into productive members of society.
The school's choir performed a few moving performances for us, then our kids performed a portion of the play they are preparing in their co-op drama class. They topped it all off with a friendly game of football (soccer). Fun was had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity for our children to see how fortunate they are, but also to see the drive and determination in these children who are less fortunate materially, than they.
To give us a better understanding of where these children are coming from, one of the nuns shared an experience she had with one of the students. She recalled a student who would come to the school with BO (body odor). She went on to say, the smell was such that she felt she had to talk with the child about proper hygiene. The child explained to her that he knew how to wash himself, but in fact could not, because he did not have access to water. That really made me think.
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Amani Primary School Choir
One of the songs the Amani Choir sung was a song I remembered singing for Spelman College Glee Club many years ago. I happily sung along. The choir did an absolutely fantastic job! |
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| Preparing for the performance |
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| Performing a scene from their play |
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| The children played soccer after the performances |
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| After-game handshake |
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