Kara Pakot, Kase, & Kasaka

Today was a long day, full of spiritual warfare. We drove on the worst road in Kenya (literally) for 3.5 hours to get to Kase to see Dorkus and all her orphans. Our plan was to bring her and all the orphans to Andrew and Sara's in Koytumo because of an unfortunate situation with Dorkus's husband (which I will not go into here). However, we got there and she had not contacted the government yet to let them know we were taking them - so we couldn't do it. It would look like we were "stealing" them to the surrounding community because unfortunately people do not side with the women in situations like this.

We found a little girl who had been burned when she fell into a fire, and her hand had not been taken care of. Big Esther (there's also a little Esther and a baby Esther) cleaned and dressed it. So it was a good thing we were there. It would have been infected soon. We also met a boy with Malaria - and all he needed was a ride to the hospital in the city. So we squished he and his dad into our truck on the way home.

Then we drove 45 minutes up a mountain "path" (NOT ROAD) to get to where little Esther's dad lives. We parked and walked about a mile up the mountain and met her family (dad, grandma, grandpa, sisters, uncles). They were so excited to see her, but they hadn't been told we were coming so they were upset that we could not stay the night. They wanted to have a celebration to thank us for taking Esther to the states for cancer treatment and bringing her back.

INSTEAD, they gave Esther a goat to take with us to eat. He's adorable. We named him Chicken Nuggets since we were going to be eating him soon - not me, I don't eat things I've met.

After that, we took our goat and headed back down to Kase. We had dinner there and worked on the sponsorship kids here (interviews and pictures), and then drove back around midnight on the bumpy road again.