I'll make this as snippety as possible, but I'm not a snippety person, so this might be a failure (in other words, it will be). A lot of my blog posts about Kenya will pertain to Huruma, my three-week ministry site and one of the most challenging things God and I have ever done together.
The Huruma ministry site is one of the few in an urban setting. The actual work is serving as a volunteer at a Missionaries of Charity Orphanage, established by Mother Teresa (ever heard of her?), located in the Huruma slums. Unlike other ministry assignments, the Huruma team is more than just one ministry pairing, but is comprised of two. Kassily and I make up one pairing, Cynnimin and Kirstin make up the other. The two pairings live with different host families, but we meet up in the morning at the orphanage. As the staff person on the Huruma team, I am in the honorary leader (whoop dee doo).
We take the matatus (such and such) to Huruma, and alight right on the edge of the slums, and then we walk through the slums to finally arrive at the gates of the orphanage. We start volunteering at 9:00, and then have a break from noon till 2:00 (this is when all babies, special needs kids, and women in the wards take their naps), and then work again until about 4:00.
Today Baraza, the Kenyan staffer for the GP and a FOCUS worker, and Marie, a FOCUS volunteer took us for a preliminary walk-through so we could learn the way to and through Huruma, and so that we could introduce ourselves to the sisters.
(A lot) More on Huruma to come.
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