Children's Club

How do we use our hands?

On Thursday afternoon, the Refugee Children's Club met to sing together, play games, and discuss the importance of how we use our hands. Nelius, the head teacher from our Iftin English literacy program, came as the guest speaker to talk to the children about conflict resolution. Over the past month, their teacher has needed to address fighting amongst some of the students in the new refugee class. The 17 students span from ages 8 to 16 years old. None of them have attended school before and they speak very little English or KiSwahili.

Nelius had the children trace each other's hands, and then together think of ways that they use their hands to help one another and the ways their hands can be used to tear each other down. The whole group shared about the sources of conflict between them and discussed better ways of building peace rather than fighting. Please continue to pray for these children as they work together to build better patterns of living in community.

Children from the Thursday kids club.


Global Connections
Global Connections' leadership visiting
with Nelius at the Eastleigh Community Centre

Also this week, we were delighted to host a group from Global Connections, an organization that facilitates volunteers and short term groups to serve with various local service organizations in Kenya. They specifically work with groups that seek to help the orphaned, widowed, oppressed and the environment. The Eastleigh Community Centre's Women's Empowerment Initiative is exploring the opportunity to work in partnership with Global Connections as we continue to broaden our impact in serving the displaced Somali community within Eastleigh.