New Life Home

New Life Home is an orphanage for kids from the age of completely newborn to 3 years old. It has also a house for kids from 3 and up but we have yet not visited that one, which we’ll do later. I missed the first visit due to my stomach not cooperating with me but this time nothing could keep me from going. The orphanage focus most of their power on children with hiv/aids. I suspected it to be quite a sad place but not at all, smiling faces everywhere and kids laughter ringing from every room. An adoption rate of 85 % makes this place a house of hope, a place where kids get a future.

Check it out!

http://www.newlifehometrust.org/

It was a beautiful house, especially counted by Kenyan standards. We were guided into a room with huge boards with pictures of small smiling children. Pictures of tiny malnourished babies from before they came to New Life Home and pictures from a couple of weeks later showing now happy and chubby little toddlers. We got a tour around the place, were allowed to watch the smallest babies in the incubators, prematurely born and abandoned.

We got to see every room in the house and then after washing out hands and getting aprons we got to join the tiny toddlers in the garden. I got a very funny little boy in my lap named Jeremy, he wanted to stand, nothing ells, he laughed and spoke in that wonderful baby way when I held him up. Black curly hair on little babies is so adorable and he seemed to like my hair too. We played for a long time then it was dinner time for the kids so we got to help the personnel carry the babies up to the second floor we were supposed to say goodbye and leave but after begging to our teacher we were allowed to stay and help with feeding the kids! This time I got an even tinier boy in my lap and a bowl of baby food. I was stuck; I knew I would not be able to leave, I had to steel a kid, I just had to…

// In 10 years I’ll be back and I won’t leave without a baby, trust me! //