Then on to Kenya
Then you’re heading up to Kenya, can you outline these details.
After the two-week placement at the orphanage, I’ll be flying to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, and staying there for three
nights. That’s where the *really* exciting part of my trip comes: I’ll finally get to meet Kantet. I will have been sponsoring him
for six years by then, and he’ll be 12 years old, almost 13. I can¡¦t imagine what its going to be like to finally shake his hand!
We write to each other all the time, and he speaks fluent English, which will hopefully make our meeting all the more comfortable. I have also been learning a little bit of Swahili (the national language of Kenya, and the second most prevalent language in all of
Africa, English being the first), and I hope to be able to greet his parents without a translator. I cant wait to see where he lives and where he goes to school.
What sort of thing will you be helping with there?
I really don’t know what I will be doing when I meet Kantet! It is World Vision’s policy that sponsor visits can only be for one day,
so I hope I can see everything in Kantet’s life in that day: his home, school, family and friends.
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