The Kitchen is Built - Let's Build the Dining Hall

It wasn't easy.... but we did it! After our outdoor kitchen shack more or less blew down and away during a bad storm last January, just a day before the Kenyan school year began, we decided that it was high time to build a good, solid kitchen. Not only was it dangerous - luckily no one was present during the storm - but the hygienic situation wasn't at its best. Until then it hadn't been a priority for us. We wanted to get the classrooms built first. Sometimes difficult things just happen for the good that comes out of them. Now we are thrilled that the decision was made for us.

The costs were high and the months of construction and fundraising were long and tedious, but the results are amazing. We now have a clean and modern kitchen that makes cooking in it a joy for all involved. Grace, our head cook and meal organizer, is so happy to be able to prepare healthy, wholesome meals in such friendly surroundings. Grace also organizes the 6 groups of mamas who take turns cooking for a week. They cook breakfast porridge for the children - and at least once the week a big breakfast. A warm meal is cooked for all of the 210 LLK School children every school day - and on Saturdays and during school breaks meals are cooked for at least 460 children. That was hard work in the kitchen shack of the past - especially when it rained.

We are so thankful for the many donations - large and small - that made this wonderful kitchen possible.

Now we are hoping to be able to build the dining hall, which will be attached to the kitchen, in the near future. It's time to start banging on the fundraising drums again!

Asante sana!

Links:

• Kenya TV Report on LLK Kitchen and Classroom Opening