Some fragile peace is holding and we only hope and pray that it holds permanently.The last few days have seen calm in many parts of Kenya….only the Kericho and Kisii border remains volatile.Though tension remains high even in towns, businesses and work are slowly resuming.Many people are hand-to-mouth types and realize that they must tolerate each other and go out to work daily to earn a living.

Schools re-started today and the turn-out was poor in most schools.But still,this is a positive sign that life will soon be back to normal.  At Hopewell,we only had 100 kids today and spent most of the time doing general guidance and counseling.Many kids are traumatized and have harrowing stories to tell.  We will be profiling individual cases starting tomorrow so that we know the most desperate cases and handle those ones first with what we have. The saddest narration was from N. in Form 3.The day I walked them from school at night and made everyone sleep in the hostels, he went to his home and found his father had been killed in the night.  The police came and took the body to the morgue but since then, they have searched in the three public morgues for the body but failed.You can imagine what the family is undergoing….losing the sole breadwinner and even losing the body. Another sad episode came from E. of Form 2. He went home the following day and couldn’t trace where his homestead was…..the whole village razed to the ground.The boy is so traumatized, and the situation is worsened by the fact that he hasn’t been able to trace any member of his family. Yes, school is definitely on but the whole of this first week,  staff will be doing lots of counseling and determining the best way to help the affected kids.We have immediately put all these desperate cases in the hostel.

I will be traveling to Nairobi tomorrow to go negotiate an exemption for the shipment which has been lying at the Embakasi ICD for over a week now.The clearing agent who was supposed to negotiate an exemption from customs apparently did nothing and only sent us a note saying customs wanted Kshs.251000 as fees……….where do we get that from, and if we had it,I would find better ways of using that.So I am there tomorrow and will et you know of my success!

Good day mama. I feel so good I have written you.Warmest regards to baba Johnny.