Cold Season but we still have to eat
Nairobi cold is not European cold — it is a damp chill that sneaks under your collar and makes you tighten your jacket — but a child’s hunger does not drop because the sky is grey. The pots still have to meet the day.
We like when children play just beside the kitchen office — breath visible for a second when they laugh, feet slapping cold concrete, the smell of food pulling them close like a magnet. It turns feeding into a scene instead of a statistic.
Someone’s jumper is too thin; someone else shares a scarf anyway. Nairobi June cold does not care about your budget — it simply arrives — so a hot meal lands like a small rebellion against the season.
When visitors come — someone from another part of the city, someone carrying questions instead of cameras — the children lean in. Who are you? Where did you come from? The surprise on their faces is a kind of payment: proof that curiosity is still alive even when money is tight.
We keep the kitchen door philosophy simple: feed first, talk second. Warm food in cold weather is a language even shy children understand — and adults too, if we are honest.
Cold season reminds us that warmth is not only weather. If you want to sit with children on a Saturday, share a story, and leave with your own heart a little fuller, send a message — we will find you a plastic stool and a cup of tea.
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