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Goals for 2007: Update in February 2008
February 12, 2008
This update takes us to the end of 2007. The Team is currently
finishing the setting of goals for 2008, which will appear in this page
soon.
1. Ensure all the kids who become 18 years old in 2007 are trained in
job preparation skills and interviewing skills and are confident.
UPDATE: Stephen Omondi is in an internship at
Tom Smith's quality auto shop near the Village Market in Nairobi.
Moses Kungu and Mary Wanjiru have been enrolled in a cooking
school in Nairobi. Mary is staying at the Eastleigh Center and
Moses is with his aunt.
Peter Kirubi has a job near the Kamulu Center and returns often for Sunday worship.
Bernard Karanja has moved from MITS to another job.
Halima Nguvu is in a hairdressing course in Nairobi.
Riziki Asha has completed her course at Revlon Beauty Institute
and Catherine Ndetwa is enrolled at the school. Pauline Zainabu
is in an apprenticeship at the Narcisse Salon where 3 other of our
girls are working.
2. Bring the new 2006 students to the completion of their literacy program and begin introducing them to various skills.
UPDATE: Job Opeywa and Joseph Wambua are now in
skills training; Job in the woodshop and Joseph in
auto mechanics. Starting the skills rotation program this month
are Joseph Kamau, Michael MacKenzie, Sarah Aono, Scholastica Adhiambo
and Simon Waweru. 14 of the students have entered our "fast
track" program in which we attempt to prepare them to take the
government exam for the end of grade 8 by November 2008.
3. Help each of the 16 new Kamulu students (as of Jan 1, 2007) to
love the ministry and the church and want to stay, help them become
educated in English, Math and Bible and bring them to a higher level of
confidence in God and in themselves.
UPDATE: None of the new students have run away. All were
given exams last week and classes have been reshuffled into two
literacy levels, with 11 in one and 12 in the other. Two of the
newest students are enrolled in the "fast track" program as they had
already had some school before coming here.
4. Make full use of the new Learning Center and the Virtual Library.
UPDATE: We cannot imagine being without the Learning Center now.
We are now anticipating getting internet access at Kamulu before
July 2008 and increasing the time students spend on the computers.
5. Help students who have interest in teaching Sunday School to develop and learn how to teach.
UPDATE: Four of our current students are assisting with Sunday morning children's Bible classes.
6. Help street youth get national identity cards and medical attention
when we visit the bases as well as teaching them about Christ's love
for them and encourage them to know that God has a great plan for their
lives.
UPDATE: Our Eastleigh team has assisted about 200 young people to
apply for their National Identity cards, a great service to these young
people. They continue to be on the streets daily in visits and
Bible studies. Several worshipping cell groups have been
developed in the past few months at street kid bases, and a Sunday
afternoon assembly at our Eastleigh center invites all of them to come
together on Sunday.
7. Continue the farm production, especially on the irrigation
zones---by ensuring all zones have crops all the time and by producing
till-free zones.
UPDATE: Our farm manager, Ben Mwami, has begun rebuilding the
seed beds to raise their level. As he finishes an irrigation
zone, he has the students begin piling green matter on the irrigation
areas.
8. Continue to guide our students towards a stronger relationship with
God by having small groups, chapel, church, Bible classes and
devotionals.
UPDATE: An adult Bible class on Sunday morning now extends an
invitation to older students. Friday we have afternoon
devotional; every weekday we begin the day with chapel, the church
(about 140 attending) meets at 10 AM on Sundays with a fellowship meal
the last Sunday of the month, and the kids can often be heard singing
gospel songs in the evening.
9. Try to reconcile younger street kids in the Monday program to their
families. One girl named Milkah was recently found on the
streets and her family contacted outside of Nairobi. She will
soon move back home.
10. Improve our classroom businesses so that students will learn more
and have more confidence to work outside when they leave MITS.
11. Take care of our Animals and get more production of eggs, goats, and milk.
UPDATE: We now have two chicken houses; all the chickens are in
the production cycle. We have 6 new baby goats. Our cow, Emily, has a baby calf whom the kids
have named Charles.
12. Work well and faithfully with the visiting groups from churches of
Christ that come this year -- 4 groups will visit in 2008.
Katera Bolander is in a 6-month internship now; she is teaching
writing skills and developing a school e-newspaper.
13. Develop a large orchard on one piece of property, eventually to have 572 fruit trees.
UPDATE: More than 300 trees have been planted. A seedling nursery has been
fenced and dug and seeds planted.
14. The new well is in operation on the 20 acres. Very exciting!
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