Gas Tanker Overturned – TIA

May 25, 2011

This is Africa! This morning, at 4:30am, a gasoline tanker overturned down the hill from my place on Mombasa Road. I wasn’t aware of it until Mwololo came to my place at 9 am this morning and told me the news. He said that the funniest thing was the number of residents out scooping up [...]

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Mutinda

May 24, 2011

Some sad news. Mutinda, the handicapped young man at Ngelani, died last night. He got sick (malaria) very quickly and at 11 pm they tried to get him to a clinic by wheelbarrow, since there was no one else and no vehicle to take him. The motorbike drivers are too afraid to travel at night [...]

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Beads In Nairobi

May 12, 2011

Fred and I went to Nairobi today to buy beads for new bracelets we are making. The little kiosk in Kiserian raised the prices and we wanted to see if we could find a cheaper place. We found a store that sold, higher than last year but not as high as in Kiserian. We bought [...]

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Feeling Much Better

May 11, 2011

“One Love!   One Heart! Let’s get together and feel all right.” Marley – 6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981 So I am feeling better, thank you. I was bound to come down with something – whether from the water here, the visits we made to the slums for Orphan’s Day or some cholera-like disease [...]

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World Orphans Day

May 7, 2011

To celebrate World Orphans Day, Mwololo thought it would be a good idea to visit some of the orphans we support with school fees, uniforms, etc. So we walked a short distance to Jam City, a slum near the entrance to the complex where I live. It had rained the night before so things were [...]

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Turkana

May 3, 2011

I have been looking for some time to write about my trip to Turkana. This is the third time I have visited this dry part of Northern Kenya. Please look it up. Since my friendship with Benson, a Turkana tribesman, began in 2008, we have been traveling to see his mother, sister and brother just [...]

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Nyumbani Village

May 1, 2011

We returned to Nyumbani Village, where I began in 2007. As always it was great to see old friends, especially Benerd, who I tutored when he was trying to get into a good High School. He is in his last year Mutitu Boys School! I can’t believe how he has grown and is doing so [...]

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Weekend

April 30, 2011

I promise to write about the trip to Turkana soon. Just haven’t had the time. But here are some highlights of the last couple days here at home. On Friday we traveled to Wamunyo to discuss the sale of some bracelets with friends at Kenya Connect. We also took the time to visit a chicken [...]

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Turkana

April 19, 2011

Ben and I are traveling to Turkana on Wednesday morning. I will not be able to write or answer emails until the Tuesday evening after Easter. We have hopes of looking at the issues and struggles of the people in the north. You might want to Google Turkana (both the area and the tribe). They [...]

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To the Big City

April 14, 2011

This was my first trip into Nairobi since arriving in Kenya this trip. Nothing has changed; still the agonizingly slow traffic, one lorry of sand flipped over on Mombassa Road, blocking traffic. I was on a motorbike so I got a good look. On the way home, we passed yet another dead man on the [...]

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