Cultural Day at Motherly Care

On 24th of September we celebrated the annual cultural day at Motherly Care. On that day many of the children create various groups and perform different songs and dances according to which tribe they are from. There are many tribes in Kenya and tribalism is a major problem in political as well as the every day life.
At Motherly Care we celebrate the roots of our children though and very often kids from one tribe help to perform the others – this year we had Kisii, Louhya, Massai, Kikuyu and Embu tribes performing. The children were all dressed up in kangas and had their faces painted. Those that weren’t taking part in performances were the spectators. We had a lot of fun. This year though I was not able to take part in the dancing due to my ankle still giving me problems (and Thank God for that excuse! I am not a very good dancer ;)

To make the day a little nicer I bought the ingredients for maandazi, some juice and biscuits. The kids were very happy with that :) The unfortunate thing was that due to the lack of funds we were not able to organise the cooking part of the Cultural Day – normally the children, apart from performing, would also have an opportunity to cook different dishes from their tribes – the food varies depending where in Kenya you go. Nevertheless, it was a lovely day and the kids had a lot of fun.

I will post some videos on the children dancing and singing when I manage to get a better internet connection – I am using a pay as you go service and uploading a video would be very expensive… Hopefully I can arrange sthg soon.