I visited the IDP camp in Naivasha today taking with me gifts from Bickley Primary School. The teachers and children were both so grateful. These small tokens of interest were much more than writing implements. Although the pencils and pens and paper sent by Bickley Primary will make a real practical difference in the "classroom" - the tent used for schooling - they also mean something more to the displaced people here...
For these children and teachers, without a school building, without a house to go home to, many miles from their hometowns, having fled in fear for their lives, a pencil is a sign of hope. These pencils show that people care, that people outside of Kenya are aware of the situation in which they find themselves, that people want to help.
A big thank you to the children and parents at Bickley Primary for helping Mission Care International to bring hope to the camp today.
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