On Saturday, April 30th, Brian and I traveled back to the Vumilia IDP camp in the Rift Valley with a team of 20 ISK students to engage in a Habitat for Humanity build. Since our last visit about 10 houses had been completed, with just over 120 left to go until everyone is housed. In one of these photos you can see a makeshift tent (from UNHCR tarps) that a family has been living in for three years. During the build, we took students over to our Freedom Through Learning library that will officially open on Tuesday, May 2nd! Books are now on the shelves, posters are on the walls and community members will soon be reading the many donated books we have collected. It is so exciting. I took time to read with the kids while I was there, and I also met with two enterprising women, Monica and Rosemary, about the possibility of getting a women's cooperative started to make and sell purses made from recycled plastic bags. There are so many wonderful things happening here, and we are building some beautiful friendships with this community. In fact, we went home with some eggs from Rosemary and Monica's chickens and some hot peppers from Monica's gardens - people can be so generous when they have so little.
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