Baby Diana

I’ve been staying at the Open Arms International (OAI) Kenya office in Eldoret, Kenya. It has five bedrooms that are usually full of staff from the US and UK, plus visitors. The joy of the OAI Kenya office is, without a doubt, baby Diana. She is about nine months old and possibly the most loved baby girl in all of Kenya. That wasn’t true the first five months of her life, however.

Diana was born to a teenage girl who couldn’t keep her. The baby ended up with a woman who has other orphaned children sponsored by OAI. Open Arms began sponsoring Diana when she was 1 month old. She was getting proper medical attention through the sponsorship, but wasn’t gaining weight. The OAI Kenya staff took her under their care when she was five months old. She has been living at the office almost four months and is doing MUCH better. She has lots of mamas, aunties, and uncles that dote on her.

Look how beautiful she is! She really is a great baby. I’ve been doing “baby exercises” with her. She especially enjoys playing on my therapy ball (that I brought for my back exercises). It actually is therapy, but she thinks we are playing ;)