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We do have free incoming calls! So YOU can call us whenever you want! We really should have service pretty much anywhere. It just might cost you an arm and a leg to reach us. I am thinking that maybe a calling card would be the most efficient.
Email Address: BrittanyNycole86@gmail.com
Mailing Address:
Brittany Nycole Werkheiser OR William Brett Werkheiser ( You HAVE to use our official names or customs won’t let them pass)
Ol’Kalou District Hospital
PO BOX 221-20303
Ol’Kalou, Kenya
Mailing Instructions:
- On the claim form write that the package is a donation… use books, clothes ect. as the items you are sending. If they MAKE you write a dollar amount don’t do anything more than $5
- Everyone says that using Priority International Flat Rate Boxes are the best. You can just use the USPS for this.
- On the outside of the box write us your favorite scripture or Christian quote – Not only will we love it, but it will deter theft.
Thank you for being such good friends to my daughter Shailah Bevan, Love, Jack Bevan
We Love Shailah :) She is one of the biggest reasons we stay sane and happy :) She has nothing but nice things to say about her Dad! Thank you for keeping up with all of us!
Kikuyu Tribe of Kenya (East Africa) Sunday, November 25, 2012 Shailah is living in the central province of Kenya just west of Mount Kenya. The predominant tribe in that province is the Kikuyu tribe who are mostly agriculturalists and animal herders. But so what, you might say. Well, I am reading a book by Jomo Kenyatta the founder and father of Kenya and this is his accounting of how, why, and when the Kikuyu tribe transcended from the use of blunt wooden tools to the use of metal or iron tools.For centuries the Gikuyu (Kikuyu) people have developed the technique of procuring iron ore from the sand, and so the use of iron tools has been well established in the Kikuyu country from time immemorial. In Kikuyu legends and stories we are told how, in the beginning of things, the animals were divided into two-section s for domestication purposes. The great divider (the Kikuyu God), Mogai, gave one section of the animals to men and the other section to women. At this time people did not possess any iron tools; they used wooden knives and spears. The women took to slaughtering their animals for food and other purposes; they did this with wooden knives, and it took a long time to kill and skin one animal. The legends go on to tell us that owing to the pain inflicted on the animals through this slow process of killing and skinning with blunt wooden knives, the animals could not stand it much longer. One night, when the women were sleeping the animals gathered together and decided to run away from these cruel human beings. All the animals possessed by the women ran away and scattered in the forests and plains; at the same time they selected their own chiefs and leaders and defended themselves from being captured by the human beings. The lion and leopard were chosen as the defenders of jungles; the elephant, buffalo and rhinoceros as the defenders of the forests; the hippopotamus as the defender of rivers and lakes, and so on. From this time the animals which were possessed by the women became wild animals, and the men’s animals, which at that time were not used for killing, remained domesticated.Women tried hard to get their animals back from the forests and jungles, but they did not succeed; they pleaded with the Mogai to help them get their animals back, but Mogai would not listen to their petition, for he said that women had treated their animals cruelly and therefore he had given them freedom to roam freely in the forests, plains and jungles. When the men saw the crisis which had befallen the women they held a conference and decided to send a delegation to the Mogai and ask him what they should do with their animals, which were increasing by leaps and bounds. The delegates took with them a fine lamb which was fawn colored all over its body. They told Mogai that they wanted to sacrifice the lamb to him, but they did not like to kill and skin it with the blunt wooden knives for fear of losing their herds as had happened to the women. To their request the Mogai replied: “You are wise men, for you have remembered to seek my advice. I can see that you know that I have given you these animals and I have power to take them away from you. For your faith in me I will give you good advice about how to get better tools, not only for sacrifices, but also for your general use. I will make you the masters of your animals with new tools, but I command you to share these with your unfortunate womenfolk.”At this juncture Mogai directed the men to a site in a riverbed and said to them: “Take sand from this site, Dry it in the sun; then make a fire and put the sand therein, and through this process you will get iron. I will give you wisdom to make better tools and you will not have to use blunt wooden tools anymore.” From this time the Kikuyu, following the advice of Mogai, entered into the phase of metal or iron culture.From Jack
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Hey Eddie!!! I didn’t even see your message! It was good talking to you. We do have a new address. I will send this on Facebook too just in case!
Hey Brittany, enjoy your updates : )
The link to your Peace Corps Collages is the url of that page:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100520010751411.2475994.33001881&type=3
However, a person has to be logged into their Facebook account in order to access it even if you’ve marked it as public …
Thanks so much!!! That is the same link I had but didn’t realize you needed to be signed in!! This is great news! I really appreciate it :)
I love and miss you each and every day xxxoooo
Just FYI I depend on your posts, they are the only thing exciting enough that I look forward to reading. You make me feel as if I am right there in it with you .
Love you princess, Aunt Kelly
YAY!!!!!!! Thanks SOOOO much!!!!! Its so exciting to get packages!!!
Mailing a BIG package today Britt! Hope you get it soon! Love you guys and miss you lots! :)
I will be mailing you a package by this coming wednesday. I love you so very much, You are
in my thoughts everyday of your lives. Stay close to each other. Love Gramma
Packages on their way !!!! : )