Monday: Bread of Life Secondary School

Monday, we spent the whole day going over everything about the secondary school: construction, curriculum, staff, equipment, infrastructure, etc.    The starting curriculum includes nine subjects: English, Mathmatics, Kiswahili, Georgraphy, History, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Civics, and Domestic (Life Skills).  We will begin small with probably 25 students the first year.  Then, grow by 25 students each year.   The Educational Officers have limited the school to just one grade this year, Form I.   Each year another grade level will be added up to Form IV.   Our desire had been to begin by offering more than one grade.   We are grateful for the cooperation of the Educational Officers in adjusting “their desire” to the vision of Bread of Life Secondary School.  They want a very large school slowly their desire for 700 has been reduced to 300.   The vision is for approximately 100 students at max.   Mpeli and Neema are working with the educational officers to understand the vision. 

We also covered the children of Daily Bread Life Children’s Home.  This year we will have 20 students in Secondary School plus one worker.   With the limitation on the Bread of Life Secondary School, the need for scholarships for the students is our most critical need.  

As we went back out the construction site, I walked the land again.  Standing in one corner and looking across, you begin to realize how big the site is.   Then when I walked the entire property outside the wall, I realized that two more schools could be built on the undeveloped property.  However, the vision is to have a soccer field and other areas for recreation.   Inside the wall the big next step in the dream is to build a girls and boys dormitory and a library. 

The Big farm news is already on Facebook is that the two milk cows on the DBLCH farm are pregnant.   We are excited by this news.   The chickens are laying eggs.  Now we have a new litter of pigs.  Some disappointment is that Mpeli had sought help from USAID in irrigating the farm.   Our government aid program is providing some assistance with irrigation projects.  However, Mpeli was told since the farm had livestock on it.   The farm did not meet the qualifications for irrigation because the livestock might eat the crops being irrigated.   Oh, well our goal is to install irrigation this year anyway.   The farm must become more productive in order to meet the demands of growing children and available markets for quality produce.  

On our way to the Farm, we passed a young lady with two five gallon buckets full of water on a bicycle.   She had gotten the  water from the DBLCH Farm well.   The well was over two miles away where we saw her.   According to Mpeli she still had a distance to go.   The statement in one of Jesus' teachings, "I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink."  

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