A couple of pictures from today

Handing out pillowcases at Cheshire. This year at Governor's School, Lauren organized a time where scholars could decorate pillowcases for kids in Kenya. They made 46 wonderful pillowcases. Today, we handed out 28 of them to the girls at Cheshire. On Saturday, the rest will go to pre-school students at the Children's Centre. These girls were thrilled to receive them!
This photo is from Pat's Feeding Program. I could have included pictures of the plastic bags of rice, beans/corn, corn meal, etc... that they receive, but I was most moved by the pile of empty bottles and containers. These are all things we would normally throw away in the US, but to the desperately poor in Kenya, these become treasures. There were even old prescription bottles. Each person was able to choose one, and believe me - they chose carefully. In the end, there weren't even enough to go around and I immediately thought of things I'd been throwing away over the past 2 weeks and how someone would have used and valued those objects.