Feeling Uplifted

Wow! What a great day. We went to visit 2 more schools, one of which, Sosiana Primary School is the newest schools on the feeding program. 

The Solomon Project has been running a feeding program in Sosiana since Sept 2012, and brings the number of schools being fed through the project to 5. Which means, we are feeding an average of 9,000 children from all over Eldoret. 

As we were driving to the school this morning I suddenly thought to myself, I don’t think I can deal with being upset again today. Let me explain, whilst I have been out here, I have been eating like the children, one meal a day most days. With the exception of a few snacks in between. 

Many of you who know me will know that me and hunger do not go very well together. In fact we are absolute enemies. So, hungry and tired I was thinking how much I couldn’t cope seeing the children, hungry, hurt and all with such sadness in their eyes. By the way, hunger also makes me emotional. 

I sat back in the car thinking, I feel awful, I have a headache, I feel sick and I’m tired even though I have been sleeping. These children have that every day, and unfortunately not through choice. 

However, when we pulled up to the school, slap bang in the middle of Eldoret Town, a bustling, busy and very noisy area, the school emitted a sense of peace and calmness. Boasting beautiful lush gardens and stone built classrooms, not wood and metal like we have been seeing. 

Now, I am not feeling uplifted because the school looked nice, or was any different to the other schools. It is because we are able to feed more children, more hungry tummies, and see more smiling faces. All because of kind supporters, like you. 

I am feeling uplifted because, although I saw sadness and poverty and heard stories of abandoned children and child labour, I also heard that 50 children in school are street children, who are excelling in their education. 

I feel like I have made new friends, and seen something amazing happen in the transformation of these street children, to responsible members of the community, and for that I feel proud that the little I have done to help, as should everyone who works so hard day in day out to make The Solomon Project a success back home in Sunny Clitheroe! 

“Do what you can do, and do it well. Because if you judge a fish on the ability to climb a tree, it will forever think it is stupid”