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Friday, 13 April 2012

"Uteshi wa mtoto ni anga la nyumba"

A Swahili proverb ... 'The laughter of the child is the foundation of the house'.  

I haven't written anything for a month now, but it doesn't mean my blog and Kenya have gone away from my mind.   Kenya never leaves me .... 

The laughter of children ... or of a particular child.  

I am trying to get news of Milly that I blogged about earlier, the child whose identical twin sister Carolyn was killed in a road accident.   I want to know that Milly is managing to laugh again .... but being so far from Kenya means that try as I might, I can't get answers to emails.    If I was there, I'd be banging on doors and agitating until I knew for sure she was getting the counselling I tried to get under way for her, and her mother.     Oh frustration ....


This child needs to smile again ... I remember the English bereavement counsellor who was in Kisumu at the same time as me, said this was the face of a 'frozen' child. 

See ...  http://luolaughter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/trying-to-upload-several-days-blogs.html

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