Photos and Updates from Kenya

I will share photos and updates here for your enjoyment. I will include content so you know what you are looking at.


July 30, 2023

What a difference the tablea make. The children are sitting at tables to learn and eat instead of the floor, much more cooperative. 

Our twins, Shantel & Blessing, I still cannot tell them apart, but they are in competition with each other. Such sweet girls. 


July 26, 2023

I no longer feel like I am in a hotel room with everything in stacks laying everywhere. I bought a portable wardrobe so I could organize and find things. Really feeling like home. 

Me and my beautiful ladies. 

Let me bring you up to date on our baby goats. We now have four. Do you remember when your babies were first in the nursery at church and you recognized their cry immediately? That was part of being a mother. Well, I listen to these baby goats and their mamas and God has given them the same ability.

God is such an awesome God. The staff is about ready to have me sent for some psychiatric evaluation, you see, I talk to the goats like they are human. AND I spoil them just like the human babies. Below are the last two - both boys. Buckwheat and Casper. 

Yes, Choco is sleeping on my lap. Go figure.


July 2, 2022

There are currently 50 beautiful and very talented young woman in the Malindi program. 

22 precious young ladies graduating from the program this year. Keep them in your prayers. 


June 27,2023

Our class of little humans, I dare not call them babies as some will quickly remind me they are not babies. They love to sing and dance and even rough house sometimes. Sometimes a little too rough. 

i am so sorry so much time has been passed since I posted anything. I have no WiFi here and cellular overage is minimal at best. I will however try to add more going forward. I found a sweet spot that works most of the time.

I arrived at the Malindi campus on Thursday evening, June 15th to an exceptional greeting of music and lots of hugs. The driver dropped off all the bags and the girls carried hem to my room. The children each took ahold of a finger and I was escorted safely where I call home till September 2nd when I return to Ndalani for debriefing and then fly home on the 5th. So very exciting. 

This is the precious little Maxwell the youngest of our babies. He is just three months old. 


Yesterday Tuesday June 13th, I spent the day in the Social Service department learning the intake process of children from the streets. There are many steps and stages in the process.  They will learn of a child that needs help from the police, other family members, local chief, and family services.

  • Rescue - Social Services goes to the location of the child and gathers as much information as possible about the child first to verify the validity of the report. One thing that they are very concerned about is the WHY. Many times both parents have died and left some property to their children. In order for the other family members to lay claim to that property, they need to have the children taken away. MCF will fight to keep the property for the child. When the child is secure enough to leave MCF, they can go back to that property and make it their home.
  • Rehabilitation - This is done through education, health care, spiritual, and social interaction with others. The children come with lots of baggage need strong guidance to drop the bags.
  • Reintegration - The main goal is for each student to reach their full potential whether that becoming a doctor, lawyer, teacher, accountant, welder, carpenter, baker, dressmaker or many more. Not every human is designed to learn and work with books, we need homes built, fences repaired, land cleared, wood cut, good parents and that list goes on too.
  • Prevention - The last thing MCF wants is for a person who has gone through the process here and then return to the streets. Just like a biological farther, Daddy Mulli will go find one of his children who is in trouble.
  • Protection - The rescued children know they are safe here, they are protected from their past interactions with evil and given the opportunity to live out their full potential and understand and accept the unconditional love of Christ and the Mully organization,

Continued from Monday June 12th - I will continue to share my walk through the farm. I lost internet while I was working on this, and decided that was a sign from God that I needed to rest more than I needed to post information.

Bananas hanging on the tree.

Banana bloom. when the bloom dries up, the bananas are ready to be picked. Nothing like fresh Kenyan bananas.

The main irrigation pump

The control switches for each area and field.

The not so nice tree. The thorns are long enough to go completely through your foot,

Their farming equipment, much small that ours at home, but they are preparing much smaller areas.

About a 12 foot wide disc

A three bottom plow

The greenhouses ar Ndalani that are in much needed repair. The repair project has begun, Praise God.

Farm animals are plentiful, chickens, ducks, geese, goats, pigs, and cows.

Ducks and geese, I did not get to visit the Poultry project except to walk across the bridge and peak through the windows. That project houses 2500 chickens

Good to the last nibble, baby goats (kids) were so fun to watch they run and play, much like human kids

Brand new still pure white goat. He let me pet his back as long as mama was real close - but do not touch my head.

Bashful calf

Mama rabbit

Piglets

Mama Mulli went to the market one morning to shop and brought home a male and female piglet. Now a few years later they have MANY pigs, 

Omwami - caretaker of the pig-sty

Sunflower Field

Store house for grain foods

Tom turkey warning me to stay away, he was boss of the flock.

Yvonne holding a cassava root. She broke it and we ate a piece of it raw as we walked on. I would not starve if that is all there was to eat, but I would loose weight. Yvonne is an MCF beneficiary with a degree in agriculture. She has kindly escorted me around several days this week. She is a real sweet heart


Today, June 12, 2023, I toured the Ndalani farm starting at 9am and finished about 3:30pm. We did rest and have lunch at about 1pm, but walked most of the day exploring all of the farming at this location. The farming here and at Yatta supply all the food for the children except rice and wheat.  I will share more information and pictures later tonight.

Meet Pauline, she is the Farm manager at the Ndalani farm. She and her husband are beneficiaries of MCF. She manages the workers and supervisors with production, irrigation, chemical, rotation of crops and much more

 

Water bore hole supplying water for the farm and the children.

 

Construction tractor used to move supplies and construction workers

Cabbage field

Black soil

Egg Plant


Pictures from my July 2022 and October 2022 trips to MCF

Mully Mountain near the main campus in Ndalani 

Mama Esther and I climbing a rather steep hill to deliver much needed food to a family. 

Our team standing by Jacob's Well the first source of fresh water to the mission.

Team photo after touring Kibera (see in the background), one of the largest slums in the world.

Such a joy,  teaching the elementary students the bible story of Zacchaeus as if I were Zacchaeus.