Greetings. We hope you are all well. We thank you all for your prayers of peace for our country and God has answered all of us, our leaders agreed on a deal.

Sacrifice and thinking about others are values that we have taught many times to instill love and care to our students. It has been a tough going but God has worked his ways in all of us and brought the results we have prayed for.

 As the country was going through the political turmoil, many people got displaced and became refugees in their own country. The church, students and team kept praying for them that they may have something to eat and drink and even a safe place to sleep.  I think our kids understand this very well having undergone the same situations. They finally decided that praying for your neighbour to be well without giving them something was not helpful. The students  donated some of thier clothes and shoes and even said they would forfeit meat for one week so they can buy food for the displaced. This was a big gesture that touched us a lot. The team too decided to give in some of their salary and Katera, an intern from Otter Creek Church, also gave in some money.  In the end, we had over 13,000 kshs ($200). This week on Tuesday a selected group of students and team members went to one of the camps and donated what they had bought.

This is what God has taught us.  We have taught it to the students, and from the look of things, they will become great citizens in the future. It should fill all of you with joy for you have contributed in your own way to bring them up in this way.


The child seems to say: "Hi, my name is-----------------, I am a displaced child at the Limuru camp, I thank God for people like you who think about me."

























Willys Odhiambo is mingling with some of the women at the Limuru camp. God has blessed us with wonderful students who care for people.

















Here is another picture of students giving donations at the Limuru camp.














Anastacia dreams of being a journalist. Katera, an intern from Otter Creek Church, is here, and she has taught some journalism and encouraged Anastacia to keep working on it despite being told that she did not have qualifications to join a jornalism school. She has done well with our students and team, and when the opportunity came to visit the displaced camp, she was happy to try out her techniques. In the picture, she is interviewing some of the Red Cross workers at the camp. What do you think? She looks qualified!!!!










The following report is from Jackton Omondi, one of our Team members.  



23 students and seven staff (Katera, Robin, Nzioka, Ann, Willy, Millie and Jackton) went to the Red Cross Displacements Camp. First we had a meeting with all the staff members about the funds and donations. We agreed on buying food staff for the camp. We agreed on buying 2 kg by 48 pieces of maize flour (cornmeal), 1 kg by 40 pieces of sugar, half kg by 36 pieces of cooking fat, 17 pieces of sanitary pads, 17 pieces of bar soap, 2 boxes of biscuits (cookies), 2 packets of sweets, 60 pieces of tissue rolls and lots of tooth paste and brushes. All these we bought at the Village Market Nakumatt. On arrival on the site we were taken round the different departments, starting with the food store, kitchen, clinic, cloth store and then children's classes. We noticed how the place was well organized. The personnel all had the talking radio for communication around the camp. After the tour students and staff unloaded our donations and registered the number of all the staff that we have brought. We then took the staff to the main store.

As we went around the camp we took some pictures which caused trouble with some of the youths around. They almost beat up Joseph Wambua (a student) who was taking photos. But we the staff members intervened. I found myself talking in Kikuyu with a youth whose name was Karanja. I also noticed that he was sniffing Mbake. This is a tobacco sniffed by the mungiki militia. So I talked with Karanja and other guys also which turned positive, and they let us alone. But they were claiming that Ketera should give them lots of money and also give them jobs. All in all they were just angry and causing trouble. At this time we went to Limuru town for lunch then came back in the afternoon.  We came back with 2 sacks of cabbages and a bag of tomatoes and onions, since the store man told us that they were lacking greens. In the afternoon we divided up the staff members with the students to go to different sections to help in the work at different stations. Ann and Robin paired up with some students, who went to the kitchen to help prepare food.  Katera with some students went to the Clinic, I Jackton took the youths, Millie took the middle aged while Willy and Nzioka took the smaller kids. We played games and gave out biscuits and sweets to all the group of children. The number of the kids in total was 500-600. The parents according to the food count are between 400-500 people who come for breakfast, lunch and supper.

We played lots of games such as hook and tag, blindfold direction telling, Simon Says and mingle mingle. In the evening we were so happy that we had done something for the displaced people. Another thing is that I took 30 dolls, which we made in the Sewing Factory to take to the smaller kids only to found out that there are about 300 smaller kids.  I was so touched by how the kids jumped up to me, all of the kids even the middle aged wanted a doll. Pliz if its ok we can make more dolls to take to the kids at the displacement comp. Note that at the camp, the displaced were all Kikuyu from Burnt Forest, Molo and Eldoret.


Mercy and Jackie, two of our students, are doing what you have taught them---to think of others.















Here is Grace Wahu talking to some of the women at the camp.  














Note from Charles Coulston:  Darlene and I are in the USA now, so this initiative came fully from the Team and kids at Made in the Streets.  We are proud of Francis Mbuvi's leadership and the compassion shown by the Team and street kids at our center in Kamulu.  Praise God for his constant love which leads us all in love.