Children from the Seasons of Peace DrawBridge group in the Canal neighborhood of San Rafael made beautifully heartfelt paintings for me to carry back to my children in Kenya. The children from Kibera slum Kids4Peace group loved the paintings and they are making art to send to the San Rafael children. Million thanks to Susan Sharpe (DrawBridge facilitator) and her amazing and long term volunteers…Kathleen and Lyla. They are pictured below.

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The painting group grows for the Kibera Children's Mural Project, also known as Kids4Peace.  Today we had 24 children (yesterday there were 17).  Word spreads quickly in Kibera. Yesterday I told the children that I would take them back to the Norfolk Towers to swim this afternoon. Brandon is a remarkable 10-year   old natural born leader (all of the children are remarkable). He agreed to create a list of ten who would be in the “swimming group”. I   was shown the list, and sure enough there were ten children named.  It’s painful to exclude some of them, but […]

Solo 7 is overseeing the Kibera Children’s Mural Project also known as Kids4Peace. Every Saturday and Sunday we meet at the Maasai Mbili studio and cram about ten children into my car, plus Solo and myself. By the time we arrive at the site, about a 5-minute drive, we have collected another seven or eight children who meet up with us. The few minutes spent in the car are marvelous. My Bob Marley CD is at top volume and all the children sing along, “A comin in, a comin in, a comin, a comin in from the rain!!” Solo 7 […]