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Smiles

We keep telling ourselves that, even though we came here to work for the children, we don't need to be...

Clinic.

We took the kids to a free medical clinic set up by the Kenya Red Cross.  They are in fairly...

First morning at KACH!

Some of the kids got up at 6:30 to do their chores (make their beds, clean the floors and bathrooms). ...

The kids are in!

Today is extremely hard to describe with words...  and I don't think pictures can do it either...  We went and...

A Few Words For the EEY

In June, right before we showed up, a group of students from the Vail Mountain School came to Meru to...

On our way to work.

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip;  Glue bottle in hand, Kevin runs after Mikey at the...

Chippin' away part 2.

Still chippin'...  On the second day of chiseling the slab I pulled a muscle in my right forearm.  To keep...

Chippin' away.

The past 4 days JP, a couple of our co-workers and I have been armed with hammers and chisels. Our...

Tribute to the garden

One of my best memories form last October was pulling rocks out of the ground to get the garden started. ...

Outside walls

We ran out of stones for the cook's bedroom today.  Whenever we have to find something else to do, we...

Walls

The walls of the cook's bedroom are going up!  After working at ground level for a week and a half,...

Rock-Smash 2009

This is the part where we fill the foundation walls with medium-size rocks and compact them with sledge hammer before...