While we filled our glasses with wine, the children were dying. While we ate our bellies full, the floods were raging. While we raised a lot of money for One Village at a time, people were drowning and the rivers and Lake Victoria continues to sweep entire villages away. I can’t make sense of all [...]
It began with Lillian really. I fell in love with her, her courage, the dignity of her mother. And I fell in love with being able to give in a way I could see. Lillian was part of our first project. I had one donor, $4000 and was feeding 22 children. I thought I was [...]
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 [...]
As you know I read the op-ed pages of the Nation each day. I have been particularly vocal about the recent rash of suicides as a result of bad marks on the National Exams. But this beats any reasoning I have yet read on the subject and I just have to post the first page [...]
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