We arrive at dawn on Easter day, well aware of the things to do: considering the african’ paces, a week is not much, but more than enough to give a new impulse to the entire structure. Our friends Gillie and Mark are with us, ever since Nursery’s supporters and now also substantial part of our structure.
We meet the children, making sure of their health conditions and we inspect the structure to verify that all the works commissioned in January have been completed. In a couple of days time, schools will close for one month due to the end-of-quarter holidays. Thirty children will go back to their own places, while the other fourty (the orphans and the
poor families’ ones) will stay at our Nursery.
We deliver to the puppies our Easter wishes by distributing little chocolate rabbits and we attend the closing ceremony of the courses and the awards delivery to the most deserving ones; the first three qualified of each class win a notebook which is very ambitious for us: the enlargement of our structure and the development into an Orphanage. Thus we start dealing with the local legal and bureaucratic issues, with the registration of the structure and the foundation of the Kenyan branch of My Name Is Help: only within the northern area of Mombasa there are about 20.000 orphan children. Figures that cannot leave us indifferent!
We call a meeting with the Nursery stuff and designate the new organisation chart, assigning roles and responsibilities to everyone. We meet Hamissi, the builder who’s been supporting us since the very beginning all throughout the works and decide the improvments to make, the maintenances and the future works to set up as soon as we receive the certification. Last but not least, we meet the chief of the primary school, where we address our puppies after they terminate the nursery time at our structure. We decide the menu for the next months, we make a deal with a local supplier in order to have daily deliveries directly to the Nursery.
We establish the new expenditures budget, including also the first emergencies medical expenses. We save some time to play with the children, to hug and pumper them till the next visit…..
We leave at two am on the following Sunday towards Milan.
The fairy tale goes on: see you next August!

Who was there: Stefano, Fanny, Gillie and Mark.