Asante sana squashed banana don’t forget to say hapana!
http://www.boonabaana.org/ check out this website and see the kids/home where I’ve been volunteering!
Went to slipway this morning, a little tourist destination with shops and restaurants. We went to the market and I bought a necklace made from coconuts, then we had lunch! We went over to the green door home and helped the kids finish any homework they had from the day since they were all coming over to our place for dinner and a movie. We had macaroni and cheese (classic Canadian meal) and fruit salad! After dinner the kids joined in on our after dinner tradition of a little game called peaches and pits. We do this every evening. We go around and each person says the best thing of their day (the peach) and the worst thing of their day (the pit). Every single kid, as well as the mamma Beatrice, said their peach was coming over to our place for dinner! I never thought about it before but it’s actually very rare for them to all sit down at a table and have a dinner together, so I’m glad we did this. Afterwards we watched the lion king on our projector and then we showed them our house and they loved our rooftop. We played some games on the roof (a Swahili version of London Bridge is falling down and ring around the rosey). I think they all had an amazing time!
Boona Baana is a home dedicated to children’s rights. That means that children deserve rights when it comes to decisions about their city and government. On Friday May 27, we watched Cherie give a presentation on the research she did for her PhD in reference to the planning and development of children’s rights. Her website: http://www.childfriendlycities.ca/. This website looks at the child’s perspective on what they believe is a liveable city and what needs to be done to make it child friendly. This initiative is important because it gives children a voice in a world where they are usually put on the backburner when it comes to decision making and importance of opinion. Children all over the world have different needs and by addressing the child it allows one to figure out just what those needs are. Some of the basic needs of many children around the world are access to education, clean water and sanitation. Thus, the needs of children vary depending on whether they are in an industrialized part of the world or not. With sustainability as a goal, communities are more likely to be liveable and effective over the long term. By asking children their hopes and dreams, a lot of them involve wanting the basics related to health care, shelter, education, and sanitation. Cherie also worked on a project in Kenya dedicated to providing funding to the grandparents of children so that they would have the support they needed in order to look after their grandchildren instead of sending them to orphanages. This is what the grandparents hoped for, but most of them did not have the support needed to continue looking after their grandchildren in the event of the death of the child’s parents. By supporting these grandparents, it was found to be more efficient and cost effective than sending children to orphanages, as well as better for the children.
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