The Day the Ocean Reached the Savannah / Land of Hope update
Dear Friends
It was a festive day when Patrick Apetet – irrepressible grin of satisfaction splitting his face – arrived with a hired car, an electrician, a technician, and the largest TV screen on the market,
– complete with DVD player, and the smartest trolley on wheels-
to begin a new era at LAND of HOPE!
Nature documentaries from now, every Saturday at Land of Hope!!
First came the lions –
Kids besotted – and attracted by grunts and roars – adults in shuka and necklaces appeared from everywhere and soon filled the audience….
And then the underwater magic of Richard Attenborough’s Blue Planet kept everyone spellbound – including me!
Dolphins and whales, corals and jelly fish, danced fluidly in the deep blue of endless oceans
for ones who have never seen a fish, and walk miles across parched lands to get a jerrycan of water from muddy pans shared with livestock.
Besotted – on the tip of their chairs –
in total silence only interrupted by occasional ‘wowww!’ the Land of Hope kids and their families crowded the hall – mesmerized.
Humbled – realizing a new era of knowledge and curiosity had began, I watched it all, as overwhelmed as they were.
Two weeks before it had been the Jua Kali Street Drummers:
Kids from the slums of Nairobi with their social workers / teaching the village kids and off springs of pastoralists how to transmute every day garbage in unparalleled musical instruments.
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Thank you dear friends for making this possible!
Kuki
Kuki Gallmann
For the Land of Hope Community project
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