Huruma Orphan Centre
Huruma means mercy in Kiswahili. At the Huruma Orphan Centre in Mnadani, both orphans and vulnerables are taught life skills, share a meal and just have time to play with kids in the same situation each Saturday. The centre hosts 70+ children each week- 7 of these children are known to be HIV+. PEN Trust brought guests Don and Joanie Hawkinson one Saturday as we prepared a meal and bought sodas for the kids as well as distributed a box of Feed My Starving Children food to each child.
The children of Huruma Orphan Centre.
Mungwe is translating for Don Hawkinson as he greets the children and teachers of Huruma.
These little guys were so patient - and busy, making clay figures.
Samples of clay figures made by the kids of Huruma.
Huruma has a chicken project in order to raise funds for their projects.
Food was delivered for the shared meal and also for the box that each child would take home with them.
Mungwe is adding names of children that were not on the original list.
Joanie Hawkinson distributed boxes of food to all the orphans and vulnerable children.
Each box weighs about 32 pounds, so some kids were too small to carry their own box.
Mungwe giving instructions to the teachers as well as to the children who each brought a box home so they could tell their caretakers.
Teachers prepared the meal for the children of Huruma while children looked on and learned how.
Our boxes became dining room tables.
Everyone enjoyed the meal - including this big bite.
Two friends enjoying a meal.