150 kids and young boys and girls came to the annual Christmas party at Kibera Children Education Centre. They had music and food, pilau, chapati, meat, cake and much more. They enjoyed the party very much. In the pictures you can see Lucy in pink, Geoffrey in blue, Rashid in green, Snaida in black and many more kids. The last months since the election the centre has sometimes been closed due to riots and violence in Kibera, but now we hope for peace so the children can come and play and get help with their homework again.

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Dear All,

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I hope you are well. We are fine too and enjoying the peace after our general elections.

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It has been a busy and great moments a the center with Kids multiplying every time which is a great thing and enjoyable. The center has been busy with new activities which include story telling and singing. Our girls at Kenswed have been doing great and we receive good news from the administration. Lucy stared boarding last term for 2 weeks and she enjoys it so much, I went to the school and the boarding facility is very good and well kept as well with a trained matron who looks after the girls and stays with them. Sharon and Susan will board starting this term which commences on Monday 28th. I managed to buy the requirements for their boarding and we are thankful for your continued support.

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As you are aware we just concluded our general elections which were so hotly contested and with fear of violence erupting. Their were cases of violence erupting after the declaration of presidential results in the strong hold areas of the opposition Kibera being one of the areas but we thank God it never escalated to the worst. During the said time we had closed the center for security purposes and one Janious was here to keep vigilance and nothing was vandalized by the youths, there was also a lot of tension and not safe for us to go there but now calm has returned and i have been going there. Kids were still coming to the center during the tension period and Janious would keep them busy with activities which is a great thing for the kids not to experience the violence. We are grateful things are back to normal as we wait for the court verdict which we hope even after the verdict it will still be safe.

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Snaida reported but to work after her maternity leave and her and the baby are well.

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We thank you all for the support you have continued to give us.

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This is our temporary employee Janius, who helped us while our teachers were busy studying. He helped the children with their academic studies and also with leisure activities like football. He still comes very often to the centre and helps out on a voluntary basis.

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The two months have been busy months with follow up on students especially the one that went to Kenswed. Three of the girls are at Kenswed and at the moment they are on April holiday. The three girls are Lucy, Sharon and Susan. As for Virginia she wishes to do a course and not continue with her education hence the reason she didnt go back with the rest. I attanded the school prize giving day on 3rd of April and we had a great time at the school. Our girls are now ok with no issues.

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April holiday we have had a great turn up of kids at the center and the teacher with the help of our former beneficiary of the Centre Janius doing a great thing every day to keep them busy. This month has also been great Snaida was blessed with a baby boy on 3rd of April.

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In Kenya it has been a difficult time for us with the starvation but we thank God that the rains have started and we pray that it continues to rain. The political fever is high at the moment with parties doing their preliminaries and there is a lot of tension with cases of violent being experienced in some areas but it’s within supporters of the same parties. We pray for a peaceful election period in august kindly remember us in prayers.

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Thank you all for the continued support.

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Emma

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Hi kce,

I hope you are well and enjoying your summer. we are all fine and looking forward to closing of schools in a weeks time, where we will have a bigger group attending center activities. the activities having been going on well and experiencing growth every weekend as we are involving them in more activities on Saturdays and also due to the games you brought us. So far we have thirty three new kids attending where we hope to have more during the two weeks school recess.

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Second term has been full of challenges in our boarding schools here in Kenya, as we have been experiencing alot of school unrest where by students have been burning school as a way of expressing there grievances. So far 74 schools have been burnt down by students which is so sad, we are thanking God as non of our students schools have experienced such challenges and we are hopping that we shall not have any, though today we were informed that Ruthimitu form four students were sent home after they refused to sit for there annual mock exam claiming that the exams were hard, the principal of the school sent them home to avoid incitement of the other students which might have resulted to the same unrest being experienced in other schools.

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Kind regards

Emma Marichu