Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Day 5163: Mission Kenya 2026 & Lost elephant doesn't sleep alone.


"Impact": photos, junk papers collage.



  

Want music?



   Click: Chaka Khan, What Cha Gonna Do For Me?


2GN2S

 
And in Kenya ...


   






About 8 years ago at church, they had pictures of children available for adoption through Missions of Hope International, an organization founded in 2000 starting with 50 kindergarten students. Through partners sponsorship the ministry has now grown to 25,000 students in 35 centers. Bassel and Erin adopted three for their own three children. I wasn't going to, it requires a reasonable support payment monthly, but then I saw MaryAnn Akoth Otieno and I adopted her.


                             To be continued ...




An orphaned elephant at Kenya’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust does not simply have a place to sleep — a human Keeper sleeps beside it.
At the Nairobi Nursery, a Keeper bunks with each infant, providing companionship, care and reassurance throughout the night. This close bond helps replace the family and herd the calf has suddenly lost.
In the wild, young elephants sleep protected within their herd. At the Nursery, rescued calves receive constant human companionship, along with specially prepared milk feeds every three hours. The Trust says the elephants know when feeding time arrives and may wake their Keepers when a feed is due. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
In November 2025, Muridjo, weighing about 700 kilograms, was reported using a remarkable method to wake her Keeper: she pushed upward against his raised bed. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
As the elephants grow, they progress from the Nursery to communal nighttime stockades and gradually become less dependent on milk and human care. Their journey back to the wild can take many years and, in some cases, more than a decade. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
For the youngest elephants, recovery can begin with something remarkably simple: the reassurance of not having to sleep alone.




  
 
A  1+ min. funny commercial, Kona Kitchen, Seattle, here.

 
Just because ...

Scaly breasted munia


Tuesday's Smiles ... 







Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.


  





No comments: