Canadians, doctors & shoes

A lot of things happened since Hell last week. So in a nutshell...

Thursday

Everyone was extremely busy preparing the entire house for the visit of 45 Canadians. The floors were scrubbed twice, kilos and kilos of rice sorted, the best clothes were selected for the kids and someone even came to do the girls' hair. On top of all this, we had a surprise visit in the afternoon by students from Nakuru Medical College. There were so many of them that all the kids freaked out. They were all very friendly, especially the guys. (Waltraud and I were proposed to once or twice).

Medical students handing over a gift to Irene

Friday

The Canadians have been sponsoring and supporting some of the children at SABACH and visit them every year. They also have other projects/homes that they are involved in. There was also a medical team who came to do check ups on all the kids. We turned the house in to a surgery and had a reception, doctor's room and pharmacy area too!

The staff were also allowed to invite their families for the free service. Some of the kids loved it and some of them hated it. Martin started crying when they took off his shoes to measure his height. I think he thought that they were going to steal them.

Auntie Flo & Mercy with the nurse

Kush being examined

Joshua being examined by Dr.

Saturday
Since there was a big turnout of patients from the previous day, the medical team didn't get the chance to see everyone so had to return for a couple of hours. Plus, a paediatrician came to follow up on some of the kids who had special medical problems.

One of the Canadian families also returned to take the kids shoe shopping in town! We piled everyone in to a safari van (20 kids & 10 adults). When we got in to town everyone was holding at least one person's hand. When we got in to the store, we had two people stand guard at the door just in case someone decided to run out. It was really past their nap time, so the kids were really tired, but still excited to be getting new shoes.

Let's go shoe shopping!

The children confused at the foot measurer

Shoe shopping is tiring...

Other cool photos from the weekend:

Since I  had Timo and Maggie on my side (the lightest ones), I needed some help from Michael and the girls.

Baby Esther in her first car ride

Timo, Me & Mags