We greet you again from Kenya!
We hope you are still keeping safe and keeping clean as we go through these tough times in our life time.
I bet you can also identify that many of the day’s seem to look the same. We will be so thrilled when we can be back together with our students and our teachers. It might be a while before we take these long ministry days for granted.
Kenyan 47 counties
Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale and Nairobi counties in Kenya have been given another 21 days travel ban (no travel between counties) and an extension of 21 days of night curfew from 7pm to 5am. The numbers of the infections have been increasing but we thank God none of our staff or students have been found positive as yet. The Education Minister extended the schools closed until the end of May.
This is hard on a good number of our families that the schools are closed. It’s hard on ALL of them educationally. There are families who we know have depended greatly on the schools for food (breakfast and Lunch) each day. With seeking much wisdom and trying to help within the pandemic, we are so thankful to Fox River that we are still able to feed the students with food bundles we send home with them as they come to pick up study material packets to work from home.
Student with study material to take home.
Our teachers and other staff team have done this distribution beautifully with keeping as much social distancing and high hygiene standards as possible while getting the food out to the families. We have done this twice in both of our elementary schools and are planning to have a similar exercise for our high school students and their families this week.
Food bought in bulk
Packed in bundles of Maize flower, beans, cooking oil and some other essentials.
A teacher filling a container with cooking oil for a parent to take home.
The response from the community has been so positive. This pandemic has affected everyone. We are so grateful that through your giving the schools are STILL able to be a source of hope in the community. As missionaries here seeing some of the struggle first hand, we are boosted in spirit that there are still ways that we can meet real needs.
Here are some ways that you can continue to pray for our ministry partners and schools.
Teachers: Pray that our teachers and support staff (cooks, cleaners, gardeners) to remain healthy and well. We so look forward to being together soon.
Students: Plainly put, that they would stay at home. Normaly if there is no school, that would signal to all our kids that being outside and playing is the norm. Pray that they will remain safe and make healthy practices.
Kenya: For our leaders to have wisdom on how long our shut down will be and how the Ministry of Education will make up for this strange school year. (Our school year in Kenya starts in January!)
Isabella with her food bundle to take home.
Thank you for your ongoing support and prayers! We are so grateful for the support you give our communities.
~O’Neal Nyanje