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(NAIROBI, Kenya) – Melania Trump was greeted on Friday in an orphanage in Kenya to the rhythm of African music. The children of the Nest, Nairobi, welcomed her singing and dancing. typically reserved the first American lady gave in at the moment. She walked down a path holding two children by the hand, then began to sashay to the rhythm of the beats as she approached the building.
She was informed about the children living in the baby home. Some of them have been abandoned or their parents are incarcerated. She was surrounded by babies sitting in walkers or lying on their backs under mobile phones.
The staff congratulated her for her visit.
"Thank you for what you do and take care of them," said Mrs. Trump, holding a little girl in her hands, wrapped in a blanket bearing the logo of Be Best, the child protection initiative that she launched this year and who during this week's visit to Africa.
She fired the girl and knelt to lift a boy from a mat and turned to face the media with him in his arms.
"Do you see the cameras?" She said to the boy before rocking another baby.
The songs and dance continued on the outside, where she read a story to the same group of children who had followed the path with her. A boy read a story to him. After reading, she was surrounded by the children who sang and danced a little more.
Trump is on her first visit to Africa and her first long solo international trip as first lady.
She opened the Kenyan part of her visit earlier Friday, seeking to highlight conservation efforts by feeding baby elephants in Nairobi National Park and participating in a safari.
The first lady laughed after an elephant of the group of 18 made a sudden move and she momentarily lost her foot. She gave two of the elephants raised in the park formula milk and reached out to others, patting her back and caressing her ear.
Dressed in pants, boots and a white safari hat, she got into an outdoor safari vehicle, taking pictures on her iPhone and looking through binoculars to observe more near zebras, giraffes, impalas, rhinos and hippos dancing in the water.
She also visited a site where 105 tons of ivory were burned as part of an effort to discourage trade. She has signed a gold book on the site.
Ms. Trump also planned to meet Kenya's first lady, Margaret Kenyatta, before attending a children's performance at the Nairobi National Theater later on Friday.
Egypt will be the next and last leg of its continent tour, focusing on child welfare, education, tourism and conservation.
Ms. Trump opened the trip Tuesday in Ghana. The visit also included the promotion of the work of the US Agency for International Development, whose President Donald Trump, who offers funds, has twice proposed to reduce by almost a third the expenses. Legislators have essentially ignored these demands.
