Plot

Like many in Kijabe, Henry and his family live in a small mud hut. Every morning, before the sun rises, Henry starts a fire to warm the home. He fetches water from a nearby stream, which he then boils to make it potable. Some mornings, the family has only this warm water to settle their empty stomachs.
After his morning chores, Henry makes the trek to a school with crumbling walls and pitted floors. And in the evening, when the sun goes down, Henry and his sister do homework by lantern light. His goal – to overcome the relentless cycle of poverty for his family, for Kijabe, and for Kenya.
Although the children in Kijabe require superhuman perseverance to merely survive, they exude an infectious amount of joy. They feel, express, and live each and every day within the subtleties of happiness – a virtue unknown to much of the developed world.
In making this film, we felt that it was important to depict the simple reality by which this village and these people live. Not so we could look upon them with pity or empathy – but so we might better understand the courage, modesty, and joy by which they exist.

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