Shopping and a Group Meeting.

Before we went on Safari we had organised a day of shopping for Friday, as five of the volunteers were leaving within the next week so they wanted to get presents and so on. So we went on the hunt to get some material because everywhere you go you see this beautiful distinctive material, women wear it around their waists, children wear them as a dress for going for a shower, and you can use it to be made into anything you could possibly imagine. After going to lots more shops and markets, we headed home, but because we got to town separately there then wasn't enough room in Deo's car, so myself and three others decided to get a Dala Dala, which is their public transport. Having been warned to be careful taking the Dala I was quite nervous, luckily we found a quite empty on and got in, the Dala stops at the top of the road that leads down to the house, if we were to walk it would take at least twenty five minutes so we decided to be adventurous and take a Peki Peki down the hill, which is a motorbike, Linda took some persuasion but in no time we were each sat on the back of four motorbikes gripping onto the driver, it was such a thrill, going over bumps was fun, and we got to the house in no time. When we arrived back at the house we were greeted with the dinner table outside with chairs all around, we were going to have a group meeting with all the volunteers and Mama and David. They sat us all down and wanted to say thank you for all the work and effort we had put in with the children, they are so appreciative of the volunteers and there way of saying thank you was to get a chef to come to the house and put on a lovely spread of food. Mama shared some of the background stories of the children, we had read their files, but hearing them out loud was heart breaking, the trauma those children have been through is more than anyone could comprehend and to see them with smiles on their faces is the best thing you could ever hope for.