Friday 2nd AugustThis morning we visited Kisumu museum with a brief stop on the way to buy and then deliver half a sack of maize to the VISPA orphanage. The museum is in a park just on the edge of Kisumu and, since it is after exams and nearly the end of tern in Kenya, there seemed to be about 50 school parties already there when we arrived, some of them from as far away as Narok.One of the parts of the museum is a reconstruction of a traditional Luo homestead (we are in the Luo area). Pastor Tom is Luo so he was able to explain even more than was on the notice boards and he told us that he remembered helping his father to make the basket work granaries that dotted the courtyard. There were separate huts for the first wife, the second wife and the third wife as well as for the first son and the second son, much to the amusement (and initial bemusement) of the team. There are also a range of animals to see: we gasped at the crocodile and cooed over the tortoises, especially when they were allowed to hold a tiny five month old one. The aquarium had a more mixed reaction and I think ‘horrified fascination’ might be the best description of the reaction to the snake gallery! The team were all then treated to sodas by Mr MacDonald.From there we went to visit the Daima home which is in Noiakach constituency which is on the other side of Ahero.  Daima means ‘steadfast’. This is a feeding programme started by a business woman called Jen; she feeds more than 35 children every day; for most of them this will be their only meal of the day. She also sponsors some of the children through education and we met a young man called Eric who is one of the first children she fed who is now at university studying English literature and linguistics; his ambition is to be a speech therapist. (Some of the girls sold Iona to him as his first wife, but we kept her with us). Jen’s ambition is to open a home where the orphans can live and where she can feed more of the children and also help support some of the older people of the community. Jen also provided lunch for us which was a veritable feast, served in her own home which is where she also feeds the children. Some of the children sang and danced to welcome us and I think all of us were very impressed with the work she is doing. It was a little disappointing to not be able to spend time with the children.It was a good day, but I think we are all hoping very much that the weather will be good enough tomorrow to let us go back to Kandaria. We hear that the roof is constructed but still on the ground and we are really looking forward to seeing the progress and meeting the pupils again.Miss Scott