Pre- school

Kaylen Tanner and Danya Burke started a Pre-school with the missionary and Mbugua kids. The age ranges from 5 years old to 2 years old. We work on colors, shapes, numbers, and letters. On our fun days we play with play-dough, go mango picking, do some fun crafts, or visit the Mavuno Library. Every Friday is the kids favorite day because it’s Beach Day! We take some Frisbees, tools and buckets to dig with, a snack and have fun playing on the beach.

The Pre- school working on shapes and colors with blocks

Zeke and Reuben on face paint day!

Kaylen Tanner giving the kids rides on the beach!

Helena, Aika, Reuben, Michael and Zeke hiding their feet in the sand

Craft Day

The Pre-school picking mangos

Bible Club

Every Wednesday Mavuno puts on a Bible Club for the village kids of Kitongo. Milka Mbugua, our first Mama, teaches the lesson and leads the singing. Right now she is teaching in the book of Ruth. Afterwards the kids play games like soccer or bata, bata, cuckoo (which is Kiswahili for duck, duck, goose).

Bible Club posing for a picture

Michael, Esther, Jona, Zeke, Habe, Myanda and Carter listening to the lesson

Milka giving the lesson

Update

Last night one of Mavuno’s dairy cows, Coffee, gave birth to a little bull. Everybody is very excited. This will mean more milk available for Mavuno’s staff and our increasing number of children.

The newest addition to the Mavuno Dairy Program

Construction Update
The construction is moving along on Family House 3 and in the village plaster house. In Family House 3 the workers are pouring the final layer of cement floor. After the floor is completed the next step will be to start painting!

The village plaster house is in the “chicken cage stage” and ready to be plastered. The workers should begin plastering it next week.

Family House 3

The final cement floor layer being added in Family House 3

The "ckicken cage" in Kitongo waiting to be plastered