Back to School

I am looking forward to welcoming our secondary students back. I visited two of them yesterday who are attending National schools close to Nairobi. They are at the top two girls schools in the country. Academically these two girls are at the top of the class and both have been put into leadership positions at these prestigious schools. Hearing their teachers rave about their character, discipline and work ethic was very satisfying. But there are a few of our secondary students that are really struggling. Just this past week we found out one of the girls got pregnant and will be giving birth in the next month. Another girl has found out she is HIV+ and one of our boys ran away from his boarding school, left town and ended up sleeping on the streets for a couple of nights before returning home. So I have spent much time counseling students over the past few weeks and will hopefully get much more time to continue that in August when they all return.