More importantly and excitingly, I just got off the phone with Jeremiah (the hospital secretary) and Mama Pendo (who runs the orphanage), and they told me that this past Friday, which was payday, the mamas received their first salary increase! They were thrilled and apparently making plans already to help their families - chickens, school uniforms, books, seeds, all investments in the future that wouldn't be possible without your help. So thank you, asante, nashkuru!
The kids are all doing well, new baby Daniel is gaining weight and strength, they have plenty of formula right now to keep him on until his body can really handle anything else, so hopefully we can keep him nice and healthy! Also, Pendo, Zawadi's sister who had some adjustment troubles at the orphanage, is apparently really thriving now - very happy, playing nicely with the other kids, gaining weight, and quickly catching up in school! It looks like she is on track to enter school in a year and a half, not this January but the following one, right on schedule, despite having never seen a book before age four and speaking almost exclusively Meru, while all the schools are in Swahili and English.
That's about all I have to report for today, except for a special thanks to Randy Sellars, who is donating a beautiful digital video camera, a HUGE step up from the video function on my little point and shoot! So next time we'll have even more videos to share of our (quickly!) growing babies.
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