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Fifteen Years Old – Empowered by Education
There are many reasons a Samburu 15 year-old girl might need help to continue her education. She could have never been sent to school or withdrawn from school to tend her family’s animals. After regular school hours, there was a Shepherd School teaching 95 … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Health/Wellness, Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Quaker, Sustainability
Tagged family planning, Kenya, marriage, poverty, Schooling, sustainabity
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Overcoming Challenges – Kaimosi Friends Hospital
A single story building set around a courtyard offers good opportunity for rain water harvesting; on many days while I was there, this was the only source of water. The nearby privatized water plant was malfunctioning. Hand-washing without water is difficult. As Dr Ben … Continue reading
Posted in Health/Wellness, Interconnection Kenya, Quaker, Uncategorized
Tagged Health, hospital, Kenya, medicine, quaker, rain water harvesting, travel, water
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Samburu Rites of Passage: Becoming Man & Wife
Story 2 – Sammy is a Quaker pastor, 32 years old, now a student at Friends Theological College. He met his partner Damaris 7 years ago while working as a research assistant 120 km from home; they were introduced by his … Continue reading
Samburu Rites of Passage: Beading, Female and Male Circumcision
The Samburu, a subdivision of Masais living in the semi-arid North Central Laikipia, are very community minded with several practices that foster cohesion. There is a circumcision ritual Muratare e Layiok about every 14-15 years; all older boys not in the … Continue reading
Posted in Health/Wellness, Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Quaker
Tagged Beading, contraception, family planning, female genital mutilation, Kenya, M, Moran, quaker, Schooling
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Boys Living on the Streets
The 3-4hr Matatu trip from Nanyuki to Nakuru was more interesting because of the Video CD playing Christian World Music. I arrived to the chaos of the Nakuru Matatu stage (station) and was led to a bench in front of … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Quaker, Sustainability
Tagged Jail, Kenya, poverty, Schooling, Street people
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Goatherd to Ornithologist
Joseph Aengwo, Following a Dream Joseph, a small 10 year old Turgen boy was out herding goats. He saw a small group of Mzungus (the tribe with the white bodies) pointing and exclaiming. With the interest of a child he … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Sustainability
Tagged Birding, desertification, Kenya, sustainabity
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Water, Living with Barely enough
In Laikipia, my tap water came directly from the river by a hydrolic ram. My water to wash my body was collected from rain water and heated by an outdoor woodheater. My water for cooking was also rain water brought … Continue reading
Posted in Health/Wellness, Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Sustainability
Tagged desertification, Kenya, poverty, sustainabity, water
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Susan Lenantare
I met Susan when we went to tryouts for the Kenyan participants to the British Queen’s jubilee. She was wearing typical Samburu dress and very self-possessed radiating a simple serene presence. My last trip to the bush, I went with … Continue reading
The Queen’s Jubilee
On returning from the field and camping, Shanni, the program director invited me to go Naro Maru Lodge, near Mt Kenya to the tryouts for the Kenyan participants to the British Queen’s jubilee in May. Through a connection with a … Continue reading
Faith to Embrace Ambiguity
Three months in Africa, really just happened to me, I did not choose it, rather fell into it. Originally I thought to combine 2 months in India with a month here, however, after looking at travel options, sightseeing and safaris … Continue reading
Posted in Health/Wellness, Indigenous People, Interconnection Kenya, Quaker
Tagged Kenya, mobile clinic, quaker, surrender
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