On Saturday, Fred called in the afternoon to tell me that another infant had died here. This makes the third child in two months to die from this manyatta. This child was 8 months, and was the nephew of a friend (a watchman here) living in a manyatta, next to where I stay. One day [...]

Today we made the last trip to Kiserian to buy beads for the women to use when they make our belts and necklaces. Since it rained last night, Fred and I trudged for miles in the mud to get to a matatu to take us to Nairobi first.   It takes a while to get [...]

As I have written somewhere before, prayer comes more easily for me in Kenya. I am not quite sure why and maybe I even doubt if it is prayer at all, but feelings of duty or righteousness or ego. Maybe prayer comes more easily in Africa with less stimulation around? I don’t know. I do [...]

Today was meeting day with Daniel, the Maasai Chairperson of the Education Committee for our preschool. The meetings are always lively but agonizingly slow. Things must be stated many times, in many different ways, in order to be understood. At this meeting, we tried to explain the reasons why the Foundation should not pay school [...]