Thanks to everyone who participated in this food project. On behalf of the 2IDPs camps we do appreciate your kind donations and the hope you have given to our Kenyan people who are suffering.
Our journey started early in the morning on thursday heading to Jikaze and Pipeline IDPs camps to buy and distribute foods to the IDPs. Thursday was a very tiring day since we had two and half hours drive to the camps. It was also such a very emotional day for me since some of the kids asked me very sensitive questions and thank God i was able to answer them and give help where i could. I have never heard the kids sharing with me what they shared that day and they called me as i was walking out of their class. I asked myself a few questions and i lost it when i just walked away from them. When we visited the second camps(pipepline IDPs camp,it was another mind hit when some of the management members broke down due to the difficulties they have been going through recently. Since we started working with them i have never seen them crying and this also hit me hard but i tried to control myself until i got my space. We managed to buy food for IDPs at Jikaze camps and distrubuted it and then from there we headed to nakuru to order the food for Pipeline IDPs camp so that we could correct it the following day in the afternoon since it was getting late on our 1st day. After ordering the food we then went to the pipeline IDPs camp and had a meeting with the people there. Alot of families had gone for 2 or 3 days without food. Thanks so much to GVNFoundation.org,Newzealand for the porridge program for little babies.
We later headed to our accommodation and we were so tired and happy since we had made achievements for that day. On Firday we woke up early in the morning and we first visited the District Commissioner's office and later we headed to Baruku IDPs camps. This camp is in a very horrible state and i don't think there is any comparison with the other IDPs camps we are working with. We spent sometimes with the kids there and we later visited Division Officer office to give us the go ahead with the Baruku IDPs camps. After we left her office we headed to Nakuru town to collect the food for the pipeline camp and loaded it on the truck and we headed to the camp and distributed the food. My friend thought it was going to take us probably 2 hours being around there but it took us more than 5 hours. I have learnt one thing in these camps,never give your self time coz you are not going to make it. You remember you have another trip waiting for you when it start getting dark. After the food distribution i later gave out some funds which have been raised by GVNFoundation.org,Newzealand to help the IDPs to start small businesses so that they can be self-reliance.
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