Korara Primary Special School for Visually-Impaired Children in Longisa

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This past Friday (10/14/16), I was invited to the Korara School for Visually-Impaired Children by the Tenwek Eye Clinic to help with water filtration.  They have 107 children at this particular boarding school with 12 Albino children.  Upon entering the school grounds, I stopped at the front entrance to read their sign and was caught by the fine print, "Disability is not inability, we can make it".  I like that motto!  These kids were studying hard in class, they have chores like all the other boarding school children do, and they are thriving.  Like many African countries, anyone with a disability are shunned to a point, especially the albino kids.  But here, they are loved by special teachers, staff, and the other students.

They get their water from a well on campus, but it is very, very dirty (see below).  We purchased (2) 25-gallon tanks and (10) 5-gallon pails for clean water.  We got the containers drilled and put together and the kids began a bucket-brigade to fill-up the tanks with the well water.  I had to backwash twice (4 filters, 2 in each tank) during filtering it was so dirty.  But once we backwashed them all and they saw the dirty water come out, they were sold on the filters!

The Principal was the first to test and drink the filtered water.  As he was gulping it down, it also ran down his cheeks, and all of the kids were laughing!  It was quite a sight!
Filling up the tanks
Before and After from their well-water

Tomorrow (Tuesday), I'll be travelling up north to Kericho to pick up 75 more water filters that were shipped up from my contact in Nairobi today.  Please pray that we're able to find the proper bus terminal.  Not too many street signs in many of the cities in Kenya!

Thanks & Blessings,
Jimmy

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