School has begun in Nambale and Siaya. Our kids are back in school and a new year begins. I am so far away from them and yet they are with me every day.I see their ragged uniforms, I look down at their unshod feet, I cringe at the disease I see in their eyes and [...]
Remember Francis my driver? Despite the grenades going off when last I was in Kenya, he reassured me that El Shabbab was nothing. I can’t tell whether that was wishful thinking or meant to keep my tourist dollars over there. Today I read an extremely cogent article by Ken Menkhaus of enough project.org. His best [...]
I have an ongoing problem with the millennium projects. I know they are the darling of Jeff Sachs and countless famous and important people. However, there are a couple of projects in Kenya where I work. The first one (and no campers I am not going to name it lest I get blackballed from the [...]
I’m trying to remain calm as things keep blowing up in Kenya. We so need to get the new program off the ground and it has to be in November, since in December the schools close and then open in January when it gets launched. The news, however, is not encouraging coming out of Kenya. [...]
I have commented several times on the corruption of the Kenyan Government. Perhaps you’re not aware of the trials going on in the Hague, but since they involve the Vice President, Treasurer, and Uhuru Kenyatta (whose after was first president) you should want to know. They are being tried for crimes against humanity. And they [...]
Among the places Amercans will never go are the slums of Muthare and and Kibera on the outskirts of Nairobi. They are places of savage poverty, filth, and a vulnerability we cannot comprehend. They have no running water or electricity and are generally what I call God’s throwaways, because they are the poorest of the [...]
It is difficult to watch the starvation in Somalia and now stumbling into Kenya. It’s not that it’s new. But it’s so much worse. People can think there is nothing I can do and so they turn their heads away. I understand, it is daunting. Monday I went to meet with a donor though who [...]
I received an email from my colleague in Kenya. She wanted to ask my opinion about an article in the Nation. This is not an article that showed up on the RSS feed. (though the one about the HIV positive teacher raping 5 girls did). It seems that there is a movement that started in [...]
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