Some pictures of Tumaini

These are the huts that we stayed in while at Tumaini. They were originally real huts of mud and unmentionable items but now they are stucco and have metal roofs. I stayed in the third from the right with the white triangles at the top. All had baths with showers and well water that was safe to drink. The food was all fresh and much was from the farm on the property. We did find out near the end of our stay that the chai that we had every morning which was delicious to drink was made from the cows milk on the property. It was so good and I learned to eat things I would never eat here and I lost weight on top of eating like an oinker!

These are some of the children that live at the home/school. You can see that there are many different ages. The oldest children are in public schools and not here at this time.

This is the school the was partially funded by the Coor's family of Golden, Colorado. They had adopted a child from Kenya and wanted to be part of this project. The building is named for their son, The Noah Project.

This is Kathy, my roommate, with one of the babies listening to the other children.

 

The farm on the multi acre land is rich and will sustain the school and those who work and live there well.  There is a stocked fish pond, a barn with pigs, cows, and chickens. Outside we also saw sheep and some goats. The gardens had every vegetable and herb you could imagine as well as all of those rows of Banana trees.

There are even a couple of monkeys waiting for ripe bananas to fall from the tree:) We were really hoping a spider would not fall on us.

These are the Little Tykes playground toys that we bought from a Toys R Us like store in Nairobi. The children loved them and needed to have a teacher to keep them from crawling all over each just like our kids would do. We also had bubbles to play with as well as the boxes from the toys to keep them entertained while they waited their turn. We wished we could have gotten more, but these two pieces cost $500 in US dollars in Kenya. The hope is next year to have plans for a wooden swing set and to carry the metal brackets, then buy the wood there. Also, we would need another guy to carry the weight of the wood and to help dig the post holes. Any takers?