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1st Feb 2010

We arrived three weeks ago and have spent the first and last of those weeks in Ngaremara and
the middle one in Wamba. As usual particularly at this time of year we have had to pack a
great quantity of activity into each day.Secondary education has been the main preoccupation.

At Ngaremara the YWAM team were in full swing and the children fully involved in learning
and sharing the good news.

Richard our Fundi(tradesman) had been busy since I left him on 14th December 2009.
The gates and signboard erected, a fence along the road behind our house, and the new shower
block almost completed. We discussed with him again the plans for the 50 bed children's home
and agreed a few small changes from the Wamba design. Before giving the go-ahead we invited
the local Chief and Councillor to meet the children, see around the compound and discuss our
development plans. Subsequently we saw the Government Land's Department and met the Clerk of
the Council to whom we submitted a proposal

The foundation of the home is now complete. Three feet deep and 94ft by 21ft plus a 6ft porch.
The slab will go in this week and we will continue up to ring lintel over the next two weeks.
The cost so far is broadly within budget at 500k ks. To ring lintel will bring us up to 1.2m
ks and roof and fitting out to c. 2m ks. about £18k.Good value for money.

Some of you will recall Michael our Ngaremara cook's 8 yr old boy who had the enormous swelling
under his chin. We have eventually taken him to Kenyetta Hospital for further treatment.
The news is not good as it seems the cancer has penetrated his chin bone. We need your prayers
for healing and wisdom as the hospital bills continue to rise. We have so far contributed
48k ks around £400 and are challenged by the question, "What's the value of a child?"

At Wamba we had a lovely 5 days, beautiful scenery under Wamba mountain and the air cooler
than Ngaremara. We took time with Nzau and Esther to see the problems and support them.
We had decided to offer one of our 4th Form graduates Charles the unpaid job of managing
the sponsorship reports and had brought him up to Wamba with us. He has been a real find
and has tackled the task enthusiastically and in an organised manner. He was thrilled to
make his first visit from Ngaremara to Wamba. His results come out in February and if he
goes to University it will be Sept/Oct. Pray for him. He is a lovely young man.

At Wamba Sophia is again in hospital with multiple problems including eyesight. Please pray
for her. The babies are all doing well and we took time to review and make changes in the
children's diet.

While at Wamba we were approached by our night security man to send his 17yr old daughter to
Secondary education but her marks not high enough. In thinking about how we can help we
have come up with a training on employers scheme identifying at least 20 skills in our
Children's homes and Nursery Schools. Now I have the task of writing a training programme.
Of course we now have 4 and possibly 5 young girls wanting to join the programme. Two from
Killymany Home, one from Ngaremara and a deaf girl Frida that we sponsored through Secondary
School and is at home. God works in amazing ways. I havent time to go into how these things
are developing over this weekend. Even today Monday we met our American Professor friend in
Nanyuki and she is keen to help us develop the programme. We also met friends of the Roulston's
from N Ireland who are here with the Presbyterian Church on a research project on potatoes.
This afternoon Derek called us and asked us to drop in sometime.

Last week we had gone to Meru for a day's shopping buying skirts for the older girls, open
shoes for all the kids and shirts and trousers for the boys - no item more thn 80p.

We will be going back to Meru tomorrow to pick up some things we missed and to arrange to buy
40 bags of beans at 1k ks less per bag than what we can get them in Isiolo. We are able to take
advantage of the lorries which will be bringing us stone for the building to transport the
beans cheaply.
We hope to buy for 6 months and later in Feb do the same for maize.

Pray for us as we plan to travel N to the Rendille this week

Greeting from Nanyuki

Ken and Pamela