School teaching completed

Elaine, Laura and I just finished our last day of teaching at Lashara Secondary School. Today's session went much better than yesterdays did at the same school. The problem is that the children are attending these lessons after regular school hours. Since they do not take a lunch, most of them are very hungry and have little energy. Even today I could see it in some of the faces... but it was still a great session. Perhaps part of the reason was that I had a Form 2 student, Faisal, translating for me. I was teaching Substance Abuse again today on my own (to about 55 children) for a little over an hour, and Laura and Elaine taught HIV/AIDS/sexuality to another class during this same session.

Nimira is not feeling so well today and is resting at home right now. The others - Caitlin, Andrea, and Kiara - are out in Maji ya Chai to finish teaching there at the secondary school, and are also going to CCF (Tupendane Centre) to secure our plans for tomorrow. Dr. Mhando has agreed to see several of the children who the medical and nursing students identified as needing medical attention. I will also be bringing approximately twenty children to SDA tomorrow morning to begin treatment of children who I identified during the screenings (and was unable to treat at CCF). Dr. Adekto and Dr. Gideon will be helping me to treat these children. I was quite fortunate to receive many supplies from classmates/schoolmates and from several dental supply companies before I left so most of the work to be done will cost nothing!

We have many things to finish in the next few days including donating our remaining supplies and determining how we can help with what other resources remain. We need to square away our plans to provide scholarships for more students - it was really amazing to meet these children who last years team and their supporters were able to help.