Only six weeks left

We are suddenly realizing how close we are to shutting everything down and finishing all the projects. We leave Kenya Mar 25 and should be home in Victoria on Mar. 28.
Every year I vow that I will keep the last couple of weeks free of commitments, but inevitably something crops us to push us closer to the wire. This year it is the possibility of my conducting Virtues training for a company in Nairobi. I hope we can fit it in around the other things since it would be a huge step forward for the Virtues Project in Kenya.
I want to thank all those who have held us in their thoughts and prayers. Since last December I have been through a very difficult time with disappointment and stress caused by someone we thought to be a trustworthy friend proving to be untruthful and devious, almost scuttling a big undertaking. It seems that we are at last coming to the end and a good resolution.
At the moment Rod is helping me make materials for a Virtues training session that will start this Saturday. We are hoping for about 50 teachers from four of my schools plus another six or so who want to become facilitators and run workshops. This means they will teach part of the basic presentation and then will do two days intensive training just with me.
Later this month we will go to Shisilachi the village of Julius the jeweler. We put in a well a couple of years ago and this year protected a spring down in the valley. So the community has more access to water. The protected spring will not be as clean as the water from the well but is good for household needs and animals. The slope is quite steep and treacherous in the rains and the women and girls carry 20 litres on their heads. We hope we can advise them on making some kind of steps that will make it easier and safer to negotiate. Julius wants us to hold a small ceremony to thank Rotary for the donation.
That is the last of the donations we received for water this year. We still have a list of places that want water in the community so will gratefully receive anything that can be donated. To see more about the water projects go to www.patriciacrossley.com/water.htm.
The last of the computers are now going to the schools. We were of course delayed by the teachers’ strike. I learned one lesson: I told schools they had to have a secure place and power. I neglected to point out that the power should run into the secure place. So we are waiting for one school to provide a proper room to accommodate their machines.
Kenya is a very religious country, 80% Christian and about 15% Muslim. The rest are Hindu, Sikh etc with some animism. It is disturbing to read accounts of elderly people who have been killed because of accusations of witchcraft. This is happening quite frequently on the coast. The murders seem to be carried out by gangs of young men. In a society where the old have always been revered and cared for this is a worrying trend.