By Diana Richardson | Executive Director
The severe drought continues in Kenya, making food scarce. Almost all families are now used to consuming just one small meal a day, if at all. For many of the most destitute, that meal is consumed at Makindu Children's Centre.
During the week all students at Winnie Academy, the preschool on MCC's campus, are fed breakfast and lunch. After lunch the kids do laundry, bathe, rest and/or play. The older school children come for breakfast, and most eat a small lunch at school. Rarely do the children enjoy a meal in the evening.
On Saturdays, when there is no school, the number of children coming to the Centre for a meal swells into the hundreds. It gets strangely quiet when the kids sit down to eat - nutrition is serious business! Soon after though, the Centre breaks into a cacophony of joyous sounds: laughing children, chatting adults, clanking pots and pans, and running water in the kitchen and hand-washing station. Truly one can hear (and feel) HOPE and JOY after a hot meal with the Makindu children.
Thank you for helping us feed these kids during this devastating drought!
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