Paul still needs another sponsor. Such a sweet boy. He is in the free Cornerstone preschool because he has no other educational options. His parents died close together because his mother died in a car accident and then his father, who was mentally weak, was so disturbed and died of a heart attack right afterwards. The brother who was in junior high had to drop out of school to be the head of the household for his three younger siblings. No one went to school after that. Finally they heard that Titus was doing the preschool and Paul was able to go to school again and then eventually an uncle took him in. He gets fed at the preschool a small snack of porridge and a lunch of rice and sometimes beans. He doesn't always eat in the home because of the other children. We'd like to bring him in and give him good nutrition and send him to primary school, although he is behind. It is not uncommon in Kenya for children to be much older because there are often periods where they miss their education due to family crisis. Here, we push them through to keep them going, but there doesn't seem to be that same stigma there. I'm sure there is for the individual child, but not in general society. There is a huge emphasis on the importance of education and children are desperate to go.
HE SMILES NOW!!! These are some older photos of him.
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