Joseph Omuto Visits Evangeline's church and has visitor to our computer classes!

Last Sunday, I had the privilege of fellowshiping at Emukhalari Church. It was a Holy Communion service. This is is always the case when it comes to all Easter celebrations, at least according to the presiding pastor, Henry Juma. This time round, Evangeline was present. She actually goes to church with he guardian. The advantage she has is that the church is in their compound therefore accessibilty is no issue to them. The same applies to the school, which is just a stone-throw away. More of these(including the photos) in the next newsletter.




On Monday I visited a family friend whose son is a friend of mine too. The young man is called Adams and he has completed his second year in African Nazarene University in Nairobi pursuing a bachelors degree in Computer Science. (He actually met and encouraged our students last year when we were still a one-machine-all-students class at Shibuli). I spent a good part of the day with him, discussing his progress and latest developments in the university. The bottom line was he squeezes his program and pay our students another visit on Wednesday (today).



He honoured his promise and to cut the long story short, he's been with the students at Center the whole day. We've just parted ways about an hour ago. As I dashed to Shibuli with Frank, he remained in class with our students. That was around 11:00AM. We came back at three in the afternoon and they were still at it. He took them through Java lessons, showed them the program he came up with using Java and how he did it, the codes, the interface and more. He took them through a quick C# review, tested their knowledge and competence in a few elements in C# and gave them an assignment. He promised to come back on Friday to share more stuff with them. What can I say. The students had a great day and this, they confessed.



What impressed me the most was the passion Adams has to share his knowledge with our students, despite having a break of only one week before he resumes his classes back in Nairobi. He is commencing his third year next week on Tuesday and he traveled from Nairobi on Sunday. He is such an encouragement to the students.



The students are eagerly looking forward to meeting their little brothers and sisters in their respective homes this Saturday as we partake of our monthly distribution. They are set for the day. Apart from the Saturday visit, they have planned to be visiting the young ones at least once a month and spend the whole day with at least an orphan or two. They want to know how their 'siblings' spend the day away from school, where they sleep, how they use their supplies and how they socialize or relate with their peers and other family members.