At the LP daycare

 While in Ngong my team and I spent a lot of time at the Living Positive daycare.  The daycare was opened so that there would be somewhere in the slums the children could be supervised while their mothers were beginning to work.  It can be dangerous for children in the slum because adults can take advantage of them and drugs are readily accessible.  Mum's big wish is to get as many kids as possible sponsored to go to boarding school so that they can get a good quality education and get out of slum.

For two weeks we came to the daycare for a few hours almost every day to play, paint and do some much needed maintenance.  The kids were all amazing and so beautiful.  They loved playing clapping games, singing songs and just holding our hands. 

They liked having their pictures taken.

Lunch time for the babies!  This is also what the classroom walls looked like before we added the plywood walls.

The rain and flooding was really bad this year so the kids weren't able to play in the playground.  With our donation money my team and I hired construction workers who leveled out the play area and added the cinder blocks and a drain system so the water wouldn't pool as it had been doing.  This picture is taken midway through. The building in the corner is a small kitchen where lunch is made for the kids each day. They usually ate white rice and cabbage. 

We added plywood walls to what was just a dark, tin room and then we painted it nice and bright.  I drew the sun!

Mum loved it!

These are the latrines at the daycare.  They are just holes in the ground and quite common throughout Kenya.

A big group shot on one of the last days with some of the kids and the teachers.  On some days there would be up to 80 kids at the daycare but there were only a handful of teachers.  The conditions at the daycare were nothing like what we expect to see here in Canada but at least it was somewhere safe for the children to stay.

This is Sheila, the daughter of Josephine, one of the women in the WEEP program sitting with one of my team leaders Breanne.

Aren't they beautiful!?

The baby room!  The babies were so well behaved.  We would love to donate diapers to the daycare because often times the babies spent the whole day in the same diaper seeing as the daycare did not have the funds to provide new ones and parents couldn't afford to bring extras with their child.

There was so much singing all the time! One of our favourite songs was 'Making Melodies'.