Day 4 at Nkenijii School

Catch up here: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3.

This post doesn’t have much to do with Nkenijii but I’m keeping the title for continuity. The post recapping Day 5 will be very much about our time with the Nkenijii students.

After volunteering at Nkenijii in the morning and then lunch at Siana Springs, our group hiked over to Mpopongi, the school Maywood Rotary used to invest in.

Don’t tell my parents but for this excursion (because we were on foot), a guard armed with a rifle accompanied us.

Although to the walk to Mpopongi only took fifteen or twenty minutes, it was mostly uphill. As a result, most of us were winded upon arrival. The altitude got me every time!

Upon arrival, I was impressed with the presentation of Mpopongi students who greeted us with songs. Like all of the Kenyans and Maasai we met, they were warm, friendly and seemingly glad to have visitors. These students also appeared to be well-dressed with just about all in red school uniforms. I quickly got the sense that the school had more financial support than Nkenijii.

School leaders were eager to give us a tour. They were proud of the classrooms’ electricity which was powered by solar panels donated by the government of Spain. They also showed us the “computer lab” which presently only had a large donated CRT style television, set to an African hip-hop station, but one day will [hopefully] house computers for students.