10 years ago

Ten years ago I had the privalige of working with YFC and going to Kenya to do a missions project with Project Serve. With the team I had an oportunity to build a home for these street boys. Fifty boys living in and sharing 3 tents. the tents were only 6-man tents. The work was laboriest, we had to manually use a pick axe to break up the ground and pour the foundation. We had to dig our our sand to mix with the cement, hand carry it about 1/2-3/4 of a mile. We ended up spreading ourselves out and only had to walk about 15 steps carrying bagfulls of sand. These boys worked hard and did not whine about the heat or the hard work. Some of the children worked as hard as the adults. We had to hand mix the cement, sand and water using only 2 shovels. I have several slides, I will try to convert them to pictures and post them here. By the way, the little boy pictured with the young lady has already spent 1 year in prison just for being a street kid.