High School Musical

…is rubbish don’t watch it. Anyway it’s the start of the school year and time to move some kids up from primary to secondary school. Eight kids finished primary this year, only two got the marks for TP to send them to secondary. That is Hussein who lives up at the farm - UK team should know him for his immense drama skills. The second is Benedictor who I’ve been hanging out with since before Christmas when the KCPE exams were over.

Jo and Jon have some friends called Jason and Jenny who are starting their own secondary school up near Mount Kenya this year. They want the school to be for kids like ours at Turning Point who would otherwise struggle to get a secondary education so they have come down to the project a couple of times over the last couple of weeks to meet some of the girls who could maybe go to their school.

Today I heard that Beni, Lelina and Siombua (who currently lives up at the farm) have been accepted to their school (it’s a girls school) even though they didn’t all get the required marks. This is awesome news, they will all go off to boarding school together, escape the risks of the slum and be a part of an exciting new school. I think they will have so much fun as Lelina and Benedictor are joined at the hip anyway its cool they will be together and the school is starting with around 20 or 30 kids so they will all know each other, I think they will be a great little community as they start the school together and figure out how to do things and such. Benedictor by the way is a legend. She told me that she wants to be a doctor so that she can set an example to other kids in Kibera, to make them think ‘If she can do it so can I’. She also does a great impression of this rapper called Jua Kali, she taught all the little 4 year olds one of his songs the other day while swinging them on the see-saw. Good times. I’ll miss her when she goes.

Please pray for these three as they get excited about high school and for Jason and Jenny in the final preparations for starting the school.

Also please could you pray for Agnes, she is the sister of the infamous Angry peanut and daughter of veronica who is part of the loan scheme. Bumped into Veronica yesterday and she said Agnes was in the hospital the day before, possibly has malaria.