As I enter my final month of my internship with HELP-SL,it is natural that I am reflecting on what I’ve achieved in the past six months,and how it fits into the greater body of work I’ve amassed in my short career in community work. Today,I am specifically thinking about the challenges I’ve [...]
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(This is what I submitted for a social enterprise competition here in Nairobi! Fingers crossed!) There are many social and environmental issues in Nairobi’s informal slum settlements,but a demand and market driven social enterprise project by Make A Better World Kenya (MABWOK) will tackle two of the issues simultaneously,namely youth unemployment and poor [...] Apart from Addis-Ababa,Ethiopia,where I am fulfilling my placement,Kenya is the only other East African country I have traveled to. After de-boarding the plane,the grocery store was my first stop. Just as I was checking out,I realized I had forgotten to bring sunscreen. I asked the cashier to give me a [...] The title of this story would make one believe that this day was in fact to recognize the persistent issue that many of Tanzania’s youth are facing. Numerous children are increasingly finding themselves either living on the street full time,part time or are in a close relationship with the street as a means to [...]
Haryana,India – It is hard to define what makes a home or why home feels the way it does for each of us in both different and similar ways. It is about the spaces,the smells,the sounds,and of course,the people. India is not my home. In fact,my home is [...] Signals We Are Free EP at www.grmnygrmny.com . This song stuck out to me as I believe it was kind of what I was thinking as I left for Kenya nearly two months ago now. All I had wanted since I left east Africa in 2009 was to get back here,yet in the final [...] Neil visiting the Akaki Kality office of Emmanuel Development Association We had a surprise visit from Neil and Silvie Rautenbach this past week. Amazingly,they are driving from London,United Kingdom,to Cape Town,South Africa. You might think that is a tad crazy,and I would agree! They are benefiting Street Kids [...] Debre Berhan methodologically confounds. No place is as cold (dark side of the moon) and as hot (Ethiopia/Danakil Depression) than Debre Berhan,Ethiopia. I go to bed in long johns (rainbow stripped) and wake up sweating through my shirt,reaching manically for the bottled water on my table. I sat down on a bag (50kgs) [...] | |||||
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