This is Judith.  She and her husband own and run this school for street children.  We looked to find a place that would take George, our adopted street child, and this is the only place that would.  I think we were led to go there - the name of the school is "Great Mercy" and it certainly is.  Judith's husband works for the government.  She said they were going to build a beautiful house but decided instead to build this school.  So they just live in a few rooms in a corner of the school.  These are the classrooms.  They just build another school and they are dividing the boys from the girls.  The boys school was built a month ago.  We are taking a water tank from the Food Initiative out to them later this week so watch for photos next week.  All of the orphanages and children's homes here have sponsors from America - all but this one.   So we are going to see what we can do.
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George insisted on a photo with "mama". To get them to take George we paid for his tuition which is about $1.20 a day and get him supplies like blanket, pillow, clothes, school uniform etc.  Let me tell you about George.  One day while Layne was sitting in the car waiting for me to do some shopping, George came up to him and showed him his report card and talked to him.  He was a good student but he lived with his grandfather up north where the area is very depressed.  His grandfather couldn't pay for his school uniform so he had to drop out of school and he came to Kitale with a friend.  That was two years ago and he has been living on the street since then.  We gave him food each time we came to town for helping us pack our bags and help with the rain gutters that we were getting for the food initiative.  Last week the police had a "round up" which they do each year for two days to get all the kids off the streets.  One children's home said they were getting 80 children under the age of 12 that were in the police holding station.  The police told George he would be taken to jail (which is what they do to kids over 14 and George is 15).  He had shown them our card and said he was working for us or they would have hauled him off right then.  So he was motivated to go someplace.  We were having him work for the money to send him back north but I never thought that was a good idea since he would just be going back to nothing.  So we were actually glad he was motivated to find a place to live.  And we were thankful we were led to this school where Judith is trying to care for these children - over a hundred boys and girls - without help from anyone.  She said even the government is giving her trouble instead of help in caring for these children.  We bought books for them with our children's contributions in this next picture.  God moves in mysterious ways but we believe we were led to this place.  As the local people see us with our truck from "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" helping this school, hopefully it will break down some of the prejudices the local people have toward our Church.