Three New Kids and the Boys Emerge...Sort of...
In the past week the House of Hope has gained several new children, all boys.
Last Tuesday, when Margaret was picking Tammi, Kelly and I u from the Nakumatt we were met with a young child in the van. His name is Amos and he is five. Like Njeri, Wanaina, and Wanjiro, Amos only speaks his mother tongue, Kikuyu. We don’t know much of Amos’ story except that he spent a lot of time on his own in his village roaming around. Hopefully we will learn more as time goes on.
The two other boys, brothers Victor (6) and Eric (4), came a few days later, also a surprise. A couple of months ago they lost both of their parents to AIDS. They were then moved to their Aunt’s who also died. Finally they reached their grandparents house about a month ago. Shortly thereafter their grandmother passed as well. Having his wife die caused the grandfather to become overcome with grief and he disappeared. The boys were taken in by a local priest and his wife a couple of weeks ago only to have the wife die. Where the boys were finally left at the Village Chiefs office. 
This is where Margaret got them. Victor and Eric have had a hard road and though they are rescued they still have struggles ahead of them. The boys also only speak their mother tongue, but their dialect, Wikamba, is only spoke fluently by two people at House of Hope, Peter the Herdsman and Agnes Muthoni, the cook. Margaret speaks very little Wikamba. On the bright side, Victor and Eric have already been circumcised so they were able to move into the boys dorm to become more quickly integrated into the House of Hope. The first boy pictured is Victor, the second, Eric.
Last Friday we a ceremony for the boys coming out of seclusion, or so we thought. We had some visitors come so, one an evangelist from New York and one from Nairobi, who has been a friend of the House of Hope for a few years. The guests came with food and sweets for the children. The food brought will be used for Christmas and the sweets, well the sweets were metabolized as soon as they were given. After all the food and fun, where were the boys? Back to their room! It turns out the men believe the boys still need more time in seclusion, that some of the boys still haven’t healed properly.
That was last friday and the boys, while making a few appearances a day, still remain in seclusion. Hopefully we will see them soon.
This was supposed to be my week to really get all of the pictures uploaded but it ended up being Kenyan Independance Day so I had a window of four hours at the Sarit Centre to get it all done but it turns out that three of those hours the internet was taking a nap. So in this last hour I am rushing to get at least the oldest pictures put up, the Mwanza pictures. Tammi, Kelly, and Margaret went to a market and I came here and now they are done, so we will see what gets up!
Last Tuesday, when Margaret was picking Tammi, Kelly and I u from the Nakumatt we were met with a young child in the van. His name is Amos and he is five. Like Njeri, Wanaina, and Wanjiro, Amos only speaks his mother tongue, Kikuyu. We don’t know much of Amos’ story except that he spent a lot of time on his own in his village roaming around. Hopefully we will learn more as time goes on.
The two other boys, brothers Victor (6) and Eric (4), came a few days later, also a surprise. A couple of months ago they lost both of their parents to AIDS. They were then moved to their Aunt’s who also died. Finally they reached their grandparents house about a month ago. Shortly thereafter their grandmother passed as well. Having his wife die caused the grandfather to become overcome with grief and he disappeared. The boys were taken in by a local priest and his wife a couple of weeks ago only to have the wife die. Where the boys were finally left at the Village Chiefs office. 
This is where Margaret got them. Victor and Eric have had a hard road and though they are rescued they still have struggles ahead of them. The boys also only speak their mother tongue, but their dialect, Wikamba, is only spoke fluently by two people at House of Hope, Peter the Herdsman and Agnes Muthoni, the cook. Margaret speaks very little Wikamba. On the bright side, Victor and Eric have already been circumcised so they were able to move into the boys dorm to become more quickly integrated into the House of Hope. The first boy pictured is Victor, the second, Eric.Last Friday we a ceremony for the boys coming out of seclusion, or so we thought. We had some visitors come so, one an evangelist from New York and one from Nairobi, who has been a friend of the House of Hope for a few years. The guests came with food and sweets for the children. The food brought will be used for Christmas and the sweets, well the sweets were metabolized as soon as they were given. After all the food and fun, where were the boys? Back to their room! It turns out the men believe the boys still need more time in seclusion, that some of the boys still haven’t healed properly.
That was last friday and the boys, while making a few appearances a day, still remain in seclusion. Hopefully we will see them soon.
This was supposed to be my week to really get all of the pictures uploaded but it ended up being Kenyan Independance Day so I had a window of four hours at the Sarit Centre to get it all done but it turns out that three of those hours the internet was taking a nap. So in this last hour I am rushing to get at least the oldest pictures put up, the Mwanza pictures. Tammi, Kelly, and Margaret went to a market and I came here and now they are done, so we will see what gets up!
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