Sept 25 - Another Stop Along the Way

     After my last two posts, where I shared the harrowing trip to the Mara, this post may seem a bit anticlimactic. Yet, it is a more important story than any sort of drama I have going on.

 I believe it was four years ago, that our host Izzo, while driving out to safari one day, passed a tree similar to this one. Under it sat an adult and a group of children. When Izzo was driving back down this road, heading home from safari, he noticed the same group.

 He stopped the van, and he and the group traveling with him got out to see what was going on. This was an improvised classroom. There are no schools close enough for any of the area children to attend, so a caring adult gathered together whoever he could and started teaching them under that tree. 

  Izzo’s heart went out to them, and he started raising funds to build them a school. First it was just a three-walled tin shelter, but it eventually grew into Ripoi School.

  Denise and I had the opportunity to visit it on our way to the Mara.

 Third Grade 

 Second Grade

 First Grade

 Kindergarten 

 Nursery 

 You may notice that each grade has fewer and fewer supplies, until the nursery class has nothing but rocks to sit on. But look at how many children there are in that classroom?

 It’s all about hope. Sharing hope and keeping hope in your heart.