Today was a really special day for the children. Some visitors came to speak to them and they brought lots of sweets with them! It was a women’s group of about 16 called Christian Women’s Fellowship from a church in the community. They come every year around Christmas time to speak to the children and have a party, of sorts, for them. It’s a small Christmas celebration so that even the children who go home and don’t get to celebrate Christmas because their families are too poor will still have this Christmas celebration. It was a really beautiful day so we all gathered outside on the lawn to listen to them speak. They were dressed in uniform: a purple skirt, purple top/jacket and matching headpiece. They looked so smart! They spoke in Kikamba so I don’t know exactly what they said, but I know they were encouraging the children to keep working hard in school and to be disciplined in their studies and reading the Bible. Our children’s choir performed a song for them and then they performed a song also and some of them stood up and spoke individually. After the program they pulled out an endless supply of cakes, donuts, bananas and soda. It was an absurd amount of food! The children lined up to get some and they were sitting down with huge handfuls of cake and donuts. There were no plates/napkins/forks-just their hands-so they were such a mess, haha! They just completely gorged themselves with food. It was really funny actually. It was like these children have never had cake before…but I guess that’s not far from reality for most of them. There were so many cakes and they were all made from scratch, of course, (no box cakes in Kenya) and the donuts were all homemade too so I’m sure those ladies spent a really long time baking everything. The cakes were just plain and simple-kind of like a bunt cake-with no icing except for two. The donuts were the same thing, no icing, plain and simple. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and went back for seconds, collecting handfuls of food until they couldn’t eat one more thing. It was quite the sight, haha! It was so good to see the children enjoying this special time and the sweet treats. It’s such a rare occasion for them and they deserve it so much. It was a really fun time for everyone.
