• There is no place like home, but Betty found a second home with two people who were willing to share their lives and work with her.

    Sr. Freda, a courageous woman who developed a free hospital near Kitale because she couldn't bear seeing people crawl on their hands and knees to some distant clinic and Emmanuel, a Maasai man who had to sell his two bottom teeth for a cow to put him through high school. He returned to his village and built a school for orphaned and special needs children in the mountainous region of Kilgoris. This is their story and the story of the children they are helping.

Story: LAZINESS

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAby Anthony Oloiboo  (This poem has been slightly edited)

Laziness is a hidden disease,
It makes people live a bad life.
People die because of laziness.
Laziness is a sign of a poor life.

Country enconomy goes down day by day,
lack of food in the families,
children get deficiency diseases
and farms are left without anything planted.

Our stores are empty.
Lazy people lack money to buy items
and a lazy mind never is appreciated.

A lazy mind has evil thoughts.
Lazy people end up stealing from others
and they don’t achieve anything in their lives.
Good goals never involve laziness.

Laziness is put aside for a nation to develop.
Love it or hate it, laziness must be avoided.
Day in and day out laziness must be driven away.
To students, laziness is the greatest enemy of books.
When will my laziness end?

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  1. Jill

     /  April 16, 2014

    A very sly poem. The sophistication of these young people surprises me.

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