Clearly I'm not a very good blogger. I've neglected this one for four years now. The pandemic was part of it. No one from Rainbow of Hope for Children visited Kinyambu until February of 2023. At that time four of us went, president Charlie Matt, Donna Kurtenbach, a long time supporter of our projects and Murray Brown, pharmacist from Alberta and my nephew. It was Murray's first time and he is planning a return visit with us again in early 2025. Our 2023 visit was very successful. We saw the great results of the poultry project which had operated through the pandemic and helped many local families to set up small operations to help them earn a little extra income to help their children with school fees and uniform costs. Right now KRECD, the Kinyambu Rural Education and Community Development organization, is completing a classroom for the Kinyambu Special School. This special school is for children with various cognitive and physical handicaps and has only been operating for about 6 years. They will now have 4 classrooms and the one we are building will have a water tank and rain gutters to catch and save rain water. This is really important in an area that has rainfall in only a few months of the year. Climate change is also changing the rainfall patterns which is making planning for planting and water retention even harder. I will try to keep this blog up more consistently and report on our trip in early 2025.
