Sept 26 – School and Clinic

     After we visited with the Maasai women at Nkoirero village, we toured Oloolaimutia Primary School, which is practically next door.

 I love all the inspirational signs they have throughout the school grounds.

 The school has around one thousand students and is open to children from throughout the area in kindergarten through eighth grade. The same as when we were at St Dorcas school earlier in the week, the eighth graders were studying for the national exams to see which secondary schools they could get in to. Whether or not they go on depends on if their families can afford it and also how far they might have to go. There are no high schools within walking distance, so all students furthering their education go to boarding school.  

 In fact because this primary school serves such a wide area, 300 of these students board at the school. When Denise and I had toured the school in 2015, this is one of the rooms where the students slept who lived too far away to walk home every day.

 Luckily, in the last year or two, they were able to build two dorms, one for the girls on the north side of the school and one for the boys on the south side. This is the boys’.

   Here’s the girls’ dorm.

 The school also offers a hot meal to the kids at lunch time.

 That’s about the time we hit the school.

 When we left the school, we walked across town to the medical clinic.

 It had just been built around three years ago, I think.

 It was clean, organized and smelled sterile.

 

 Even if some of the supplies and equipment were fairly old and worn.

 We got back to the Camp in time for a late lunch. Then took another walk around the Camp.

 It was another full day and the next day was sure to be just as busy.