After leaving the Maasai village we drove to Amboseli Primary School that is supported by Grand Circle Foundation of Overseas Adventure Travel. During their sponsorship the school has improved ratings from 67 out of 90 schools in Kenya to #3. In the last 13 years they have given the school over $250,000. They have built school dormitories , housing for teaches, an electric fence to keep elephants out along with a well and irrigation system for the vegetable gardens.

On the short drive to the school we stopped to see 2 mothers with their beautiful babies. Whenever we drive anywhere young children come running to wave to us as we go by.

The children of the village walk 90 minutes to school in the morning and 90 minutes back home at the end of the day. They are escorted both ways by a warrior. The reason for this is that the park is full of wild animals and it is not safe for the children with lions and elephants roaming around.

Unfortunately the day that we visited the school it was Sunday but several of the older students volunteered to come to school for the day so we could talk to them. Each of us were assigned a student. Mine was a 14 year old girl who wants to become a doctor. She said that the doctors in the hospital are always from other countries and she believes it is important that there are doctors from Kenya working there. We went over to a map and I showed her where Florida was and she showed me where Kenya was. Next I showed her pictures of Florida and, of course, she had heard of Disney World. I also showed her pictures of our Habitat houses and explained to her what we do. Over and over again she said “God bless you.”

Next up is game driving in Amboseli National Park.