19 June - Visiting Mzungus

The last two weeks has seen three ladies from Manchester staying in the Vision Africa volunteeer house at teh orphanage. It makes a nice change occassionally to not be the only mzungu in town. They were here for 2 weeks to offer training and guidance to local special schools in physiotherapy and occupational therapy to the teachers. Luckily this also meant they needed some additional equipment which we at Ithiru Youth Polytechnic could provide which brought in much needed income. This hopefully can be an ongoing relationship with these schools.

At the end of their stay I invited them to the Kibe homestead to sample some real Kenyan hospitality and a very welcoming home (I did check with Jane (the cook from the Poly) first!).

They were given a tour of the shamba and an education in farming of coffee, bananas, macdamia nuts, mangos and avcados before we had a fine feast and could not eat anymore as we prised ourselves of the sofa. A little spontaneous singing and dancing as we left ended the day nicely.

The tour of the Shamba with little Carol telling me to pay attention!!

Elliot, So So and me share a joke over supper

A cheerful farewell after the dancing