MITS Library and News

The following report is from Francis Mbuvi, giving an insight into one day at the Kamulu Campus of Made in the Streets. A few notes are included as explanation.

"Today we had a slow day because it was declared a public holiday.

We had Chapel at 10 AM and it was heavenly singing. Ken Owino shared with us and said we should take care of things as if they were ours. We had one hour in Library -- here are two pics of Jackline, Margaret and

Mwanahawa reading during that time.

(note: The Library is a special part of MITS. Each year when visitors come to work with us, we always ask them to bring some more books that are good for teenagers - to help them grow spiritually, to help them with English, to deepen their skills studies, and so on. We have almost 3,000 books now that the Coulstons have returned with a suitcase full.)

We also had our classes early. I talked with Akinyi and she said that the 4:30 classes were very nice. She said the students enjoyed them and that they learned much. She too said she learned a lot from the things she taught.

(note: Irene Akinyi is teaching the current Bible offering of the 4:30 Classes, which is Personal Counseling. We are teaching the kids how to recognize emotional and spiritual problems and how to develop themselves, with God's help, into secure and stable people. The 4:30 Classes are designed to help the students prepare themselves for life outside of MITS, in a job, in their own housing, in a new church)

We had some time in the afternoon to work in the farm. There was power

today so we had water."

(note: There is severe power rationing in Kenya because of the serious long-term drought the country has been facing. Many rivers can no longer support hydro-electric plants. When we have electricity, we have water, since we have a well that is 300 feet deep and has plenty of water for our purposes. We are grateful to friends in the USA who provided funds and expertise for our water supply.

The Library at MITS - Kamulu

We love our library.  We now have 2,868 books.  In the recent container sent from Tennessee we received 573 reading books for the kids, 501 Bible books, a box of board books for babies and some of the National Geographics that we did not have.  Thanks to a Bible professor at David Lipscomb, to the Otter Creek Church library, to someone in Irving, Texas, for the NGs, and to those kind people from Otter Creek who collected and boxed the books at Healing Hands!  Darlene and visitors from Pepperdine have categorized and taped books and typed titles into a computer file.  

The library is going to be of great help as we are upgrading our literacy training and our Bible, business and computer offerings.  In addition to the 13 "fast track" students who are preparing themselves for the 8th Grade Exit Exam in December, we are beginning a new class called 4.30 in which we will give our skills students (34 of them beginning June 1) additional knowledge in Bible (especially morality in the marketplace, but also in regard to marriage and friendships), Business (getting a job, keeping a job, starting a business, relationships on the job) and Computers (personal accounting, accounting for a small business, using the internet wisely and efficiently and advanced English studies).  That's a long sentence; hope you can make it out.