Back in Kenya...

I arrived in Kenya on Friday morning. I am so glad to be back!

On Saturday I went to a wedding. Mark is a former street boy (which means he was homeless for a while, living on his own in the town) who was helped by the Sunshine Centre, where I now live. His life is now very different - he has a job and his own house and he is now married to Naomi. It was a lovely day and very special to see somebody who used to have no hope so excited about his future.

On Sunday I watched the Sunshine Boys play football against another orphanage. We were all gutted when we lost 4-0! I did have some good news though as my Land Rover arrived. It is really good to have my own car out here as I will have a lot of long journeys to make. I look forward to telling you about these.

On Monday I spent a day teaching drama to the four girls on the Fuhomi Project. This is one of Mission Care International's newest projects. The girls have finished secondary school and are doing a "gap" year with the Fuhomi Project. Lots of people in the UK do gap years, and this is the same sort of thing. The girls will be learning lots of teaching skills and then going into schools to take lessons about issues that affect teenagers here in Kenya. I am going to be teaching them drama, media and film so that their lessons and workshops are really interesting for the young people they will be working with. We had a lot of fun.

Today, I am leaving Naivasha to drive to Mombasa to see the Mission Care International work there. I will be travelling with our friends Martin and Mary Print who run Footsteps International which is a charity doing lots of work to help children here in Kenya. Mombasa is over 450km from Naivasha and the drive will take most of the day. I will let you know all about this visit in my next post - please visit again soon!

Going back...

I am pleased to say that things have calmed down a lot in Kenya since I had to come home. Having spent time thinking very carefully, we have decided that it is safe for me to go back to Naivasha.

I am very glad that I will be able to return to spend time with the Sunshine Boys and work on some of Mission Care's other projects. I look forward to telling you all about them when I get back to Sunshine Cottage. Please come back to my blog next week for all the latest updates!

In the news...

You may have seen the troubles in Kenya in the news a lot over the past few weeks. As I had to come home because of the fighting between different tribes in Kenya, and some terrible things that are happening, there is quite a lot of interest in what I saw happening.

I spent yesterday talking to some local journalists about my experiences. Look out for my stories in the News Shopper and Bromley Extra next week.

If you want to hear me talking about Kenya I will be speaking at a special evening we are organising on Saturday 9th Februrary, to be held at St Mark's Church, Westmoreland Road, Bromley, from 7pm. We will be showing some DVDs of the different Mission Care projects in Africa and I will be sharing about all the things that happened. There will also be some musical entertainment and some great raffle prizes. This would be a fun evening out for your family if you want to come.