When schools lock their gates for the holidays, idle time can become risk — roaming lanes, cheap trouble, small hurts that grow. We opened the day with movement: football boots scraping dust, a drum borrowed from a neighbour, a corner cleared for drawing.
Acting and music let shy children find volume. Dance shook off the cold that sits in Kibera on cloudy July afternoons. In another circle, we worked through social skills — how to apologise, how to say no, how to stand in line without pushing.
Holiday weeks also pull more children into our Saturday feeding programme — bellies empty from long mornings at home, parents juggling piecework and worry. Today’s session showed that rise plainly: more plates, more refills, more quiet thank-yous.
Keeping this mix alive takes beans, oil, charcoal, and people who remember to buy soap. If you can donate toward the holiday programme — or volunteer to coach one session — contact us at etco-kenya.org.
