School Days

So juvy has become a lot easier for me. A new batch of volunteers arrived on Saturday (about 16 new people, so the CCS home base is pretty packed) and they're all really interesting people. Am0ong them is Lauren, an Aussie who has been placed with me at juvy. She's helped to lighten the load of working with the children and she's a social worker back home which helps add new insight to working in juvy. And then, just today, a local volunteer named Agnes joined us at juvy as well. I can see things becoming much more managable in the near future. In addition, Lauren brought her camera to juvy today and she said she'll share the pictures with me, which means I can finally show you the place that I spend my days here.
I've also recently become friends with a Maasai who's attending school here. His name is Zac and he, surprisingly, has a facebook. He told me that he must be either the first or second Maasai he knows of that has a facebook. We've been having lots of conversations about our cultural differences and at some point I plan to visit his tribe with him.
Today at juvy I talked to the warren, Mr. Goombo, and he told me of a boy who had recently left juvy. He said that the boy's mother had said that he couldn't afford to go to school. I asked how much it cost to put a child in public primary school and he said 30,000 shilings, the equivalent to less than thirty US dollars. Thirty bucks for an entire year of primary school! It's sad that people are so economically desperate here that they can't afford that.