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On November 9, 2012 By Harry and Annie Bergshoeff

We are back in Nairobi after spending two weeks in the three counties that our project covers. We visited six distributions and five water pans in this round of travel. Not only are these long distances away, but they are also very difficult to access or locate. Bumpy, rough roads have become a normal, every day experience for us but this time we had the added challenge of using trails and fields to visit the water pans. The local chairperson for one of the sites was unable to direct us to the site since she walks the cross-country shortcuts and never goes along any of the roads. A local person graciously guided our vehicle across a path that dead-ended at a wide, deep “ditch” that someone had dug across the path. Apparently, prior to this, he had been requested to end his ditch a few feet before the road. His response however had been that it is his property to do with as he wishes. So we drove through some fields, zig-zagging between bushes and lots of low thorny trees. “Between” was not wide enough to prevent our vehicle from receiving many scratches but worse, a large thorn punctured our tire and some time later we were faced with a flat tire. Such adventure!

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Guest Blog – by Ruth

On November 2, 2012 By Harry and Annie Bergshoeff

Hello,

My name is Ruth. I have just received my second monthly portion of food and am waiting for my son to come with a bicycle to help me get this food to our home. Annie, the mzunga (white person) IRM, asked me a lot of questions about my life. Here is the story I told her.

I live in a small village, about 20 kilometres from here. I left our home at 6 am this morning because I did not want to be late for the distribution. We are also asked to help to help take the bags from the storage and prepare the piles. There are a lot of people here today – they told us that there were 400 families coming to collect their portion today. There are also some people who came, hoping there would be extra but since they are not on the beneficiary list, they were told that, sadly, there was no food for them. I feel sorry for them but some of us have already pledged to give 1 kg of our maize each month to help feed the orphans in this village who are part of the “God’s children” program at the local church here.

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