Visitors are here!!!

and experiencing the town on a daily basis they have also been doing some fabulous work. This year we are focusing all building projects at Primary School. It's a government run school of 2000 children. Each class has 75-100 per class room. Yeah, hard to believe and seeing it is even more unbelievable. CTC has it's first team who have come to MaaiMahiu for a week and a half to work and offer a lot of help to our programs. Bodwell High School from Vancouver, 10 students and 4 leaders, arrived last week. Besides being shown Maai MahiuNgeyachidrenCTC has always helped the poorest of the community, those who have everything weighted against them. The students at Ngeya are these exact individuals as it's the free schooling for those in the community with no other options for education. And to say the govn't does not adequately funded the school is a huge understatement. Over the past few months Rocky and I have sat with the head mistress at the school and looked at the biggest infrastructure needs and identified a long list. The first objective is to help the school better it's current kitchen/cooking situation. Currently, the cooks make all food in an old classroom with dirt floors, no tables and the large pots are put on stones. The cooks simply keep pushing wood under the pots to keep them going. It's not sanitary and also makes the school pay nearly 5000ksh a week, $70. This is a huge cost for a school with no money figuring the govn't pays for none of this. It all has to be donated by the already struggling families.

Bodwell has brought a good sum to finish the kitchen. The school had build four walls, no roof or any details of the kitchen, as they ran out of money. So we had the roof put on to prepare the kitchen for the students to start working. While they have been here we spent 3 days working to lay the concrete floor, finishing the walls with concrete and installing the door and windows. I have included a few pictures of the process. By the time the team comes back from it's trip to the Masai Mara this week the kitchen will be complete. We still need to purchase fuel efficient stoves (no funds found yet) to help with the high costs of wood and also try to help reduce the already de forestation that is currently happening in the Rift Valley.

Thank you Bodwell for tirelessly working and putting your hearts and bodies into the project. The kids at Ngeya will truly appreciate the kindness and as always CTC would not be able to complete these types of projects without your assistance. THANK YOU !!!!