Day 5

Today we started the day by going to the Bread of Life Community School located in Mapalo along with the Bread of Life Church. Emmanuel and Samson are some of the staff at the school. Samson is the principal/administrator and Emmanuel is one of the nine teachers. At Bread of Life, they have a school, administrator's office (2 of them, one of which also serves as a knitting room for the local Support Group), a chicken coop and a church. It was really cool to see how the schools here are so different compared to the ones in the US. We were able to see some students in an extra help kind of class which was actually 7th grade! It was interesting to see what they were learning/studying at the time, which happened to be plant cells. When we were done there, we went to two homes of sponsored kids. The first one we went to was where Lawrence Chrisi stays. He lives with his aunt, sister, and three cousins. He was visiting a sick uncle at the time so he wasn't there and we talked with the aunt. It turns out that his sister has sickle cell anemia, and can't afford the right medications. Both he and his sister are in 5th grade and in Emmanuel's class. We didn't spend a lot of time there, and moved on to the child Ridge Kids sponsors. Josephine, who is the sponsored child, lives with her two older brothers, sister, mom, and step-dad. She was pretty scared when we came so we couldn't really find out much about her. When we were done, we went to have lunch. After lunch, we went to visit the girl my grandma and grandpa sponsor, Betha. We had some gifts for her so we gave them to her. She lived with four other people (I think) in a two room house. She loved them all a lot! When we left, we went to Jubilee for a strategic planning meeting. It was all about the near future of Jubilee and I found it kinda boring (mainly because I didn't get it) so I did homework instead. When it was over, Martha took us back to Kaps.