"Start Small" giving YASHA Mission Academy a 'face lift"

A group of young people from the UK came to YASHA to paint our 2 temporary buildings ... This has been a dream of mine as it always used to look like a police station or something ;-)

 

YASHA HOPE CENTRE (Street Children Project)

Here Lydia is standing with Michael, Imann & Joseph - 3 kids from the JWHS Home for Street Kids, (Directed by Beverley Gilbert Stone - Expanding Opportunities) together with all their stuff to board at YASHA Mission Academy in Njoro, Kenya.

The kids had to do an ACE Assessment Test - although they are were between the ages of 9-11, they couldn't really read or write properly. We are excited to see how they will develop in YASHA :-)

END-OF-THE-TERM TREE PLANTING CELEBRATION

29th of July 2009 @ YASHA Guest House

We planted 49 trees (7 trees in 7 rows) as a fund raising project. In about 4-7 years we can start "harvesting" the trees and make quite a bit of money for the school.

Working, working, working ...

Great preperations were taking place as each child received a merit bag after the day. Here Anne Cheptoo, the manager of YASHA Guest House is at work the morning of the big day.

At lunch time we treated the kids on hot dogs and sodas. The Nursery School had their own fun time at the YAHSA school premises as we just thought they are too small to control at the guesthouse the whole day. Here Anne and Lydia are posing with the long buns and sausages that are suppose to be sent to school.

On the photo below is Samuel Ouma with our friend from the soda depot as they are busy counting the sodas for us.

The BIG day ...

Students gathering under the tree as they arrived.

Each class had a few trees to plant and we made sure that every student participated.

Lydia planting the 1st tree ... unfortunately the batteries of our camera gave trouble, so we couldn't take more photos. We had a lovely day of fun and games after the ceremony and the students as well as the staff enjoyed themselves thoroughly.