Thursday/Friday Oct 18 & 19th

The sun streamed through our windows bright and early and we head out to Kajiado to the Rescue Center. The road is rough and is a little over a hours drive for where we are staying. The landscape is open savannah with giraffe, zebra and other grazers along side of the road. We spent the day at the Rescue center visiting with Jacinta the Head Mistress and updating the girls bios and pictures. Jacinta shared with us how one of the girls (aged 15) had gone home for break and come back to school pregnant. After giving birth the mother of the girl had been called to come and pick up her grandchild. The situation was not good for the little baby as the grandmother and three children herself, no husband, no income and was pregnant herself. Because the girl who had had the baby was not circumcised before giving birth the baby was a "taboo" for the area. We were concerned for the life of the little baby boy and decided to encourage the grandmother to bring the child to us and we would find a home for him.

The mother will not be able to return to her home till she has finished ALL her schooling due to the fact that she will be beaten to near death and then circumcised. God impressed us to contact a lay pastor's wife in another district to see if she would be willing to take the baby into her home and raise him. Allowing the mother to come to her place during school breaks in order to bond with her baby and have a safe place to go during the holidays. The lay pastors wife agreed to take the baby - and so we spent the next day shopping for baby items, diapers, clothes etc.
As the sun sunk behind Ngong Hills - we also fell into bed! Tired out both mentally and physically.