No picture today, sorry :( I went back to Ogande Girls Secondary today. The staff had asked if I could some back to talk to the girls about sexuality. Since I've been in Kenya I have met many HIV positive people, listened to the heartache of the orphans and widows left behind by their HIV positive spouses/parents, cried with girls who have been raped at an early age by family members and nothing was ever done or said in their defense. Teenage pregnancy rates are very high, and school staff have reported that girls are becoming sexually active as early as age 7. I thought I was going to be talking to maybe 60 or 70 girls but it ended up being a few hundred! They gathered outside in a shady grass area on the school compound and we talked about the purpose of sex, benefits of waiting until marriage and ways they can avoid having sex until then. We talked a lot about their worth as women being defined by God and not men, learning to find satisfaction in the Lord and not t
rying to get their deepest desires met in relationships. They were quite interactive-- it was really fun :) I will be returning there Monday to do individual counseling with some of the girls.