A great project

The next day we visited a Compassion project in Nairobi which had some amazing things going on. They have a hair salon where the girls go to learn skills in hairdressing - I even got a free blow-dry! It was fun to watch them all doing each others hair in braids and practising platting on hair mannequins.

They also have a medical clinic where they were doing eye check ups and dental work. Ben filmed a tooth extraction (yuck) and we able to buy glasses for a little Compassion girl whose glasses had broken and her parents couldn't afford to replace them. There was a computer room too - the kids learn skills there and the community can also come and surf the net or use the printer for a small fee.

They also make school shoes and sell them to other projects in the area. They buy the soles and make the leather top of the shoe. These people were very innovative and we really enjoyed seeing all the different initiatives they had started at the project.

The team...together in a photo for the first time: