Today, it was a huge preparation day for me and my local project managers and people I’m working with: finalizing logistics, field visits, checking if all is organized in the guest houses and the agenda details. In a few days here in Eldoret, more than 20 managers from different countries and functions will arrive and…
Category: Rural life
About farmers and life in the villages
A day for people with albinism and without – because inclusion is key
On Friday this week we will launch Be in – Be out, a mobile website for people with albinism and all those being close to them. The launch day takes place in Nairobi, Kenya and is run together with the team from Positive Exposure. Be in – be you is an information source for people…
Sex for fish – HIV and abuse at the Victoria lake
WA-WA Kenya aims to stop ‘sex for fish’ practices by empowering women and teenage girls around lake Victoria. “Our main goal is to address social inequalities between men and women which is resulting in a lack of recognition of their rights, very restricted access to opportunities and to power: this results in difficulties to major economic…
Albinism in Kenya – people like you and me
What would you do if your child is born with Albinism? Would you abandon him or her? Read more about the difficult experiences of Yvonne Marando in our latest blog articles here. I have good friends who are albinos. And do you know what? They are just like you and me. A special hug to…
An interview in Kenya about schools, students and challenges
We arrive at one of the primary schools here in Bungoma county, Kenya. Many schools have very poor infrastructures and are in a poor status. In all the schools there are hundreds of children. The school we visit might be good at hosting 400 students. But the number of the students is growing every day:…
Visit at a dispensary
It’s in Bungoma county, close to Webuye where we stop to visit a dispensary and to discuss shortly with the doctor. Only a few minutes as she manages everything at her own and the number of patients waiting in front of the building is quite high. “Everyday”, she says, “I do at least 25 to…
Meeting a West Kenyan small farmer with passion – and referee by choice
It’s a warm day when I meet a farmer couple at their home. The farmer demonstrates with a lot of pride and energy his testing fields. He tries to find out out which kind of maize grows better with the continuously higher lack of water, how a mixed agriculture helps to avoid acid soil and…
Why it is important that women in Kenya learn fishing
Dried fish from the Victoria lakeI have met Cavin and Francis in Nairobi. Both of them had a rather challenging life when they grew up. Difficult family situations, death, poverty, frustrations… and both are appassionate for a big dream. And things changed: They have been together in an eight months social entrepreneurial program “kanthari” in…
Visiting a market in Bungoma county
I’m very impressed by the colorful market scenery here in Bungoma county in West Kenya: Farmers who buy and sell cattle, sometimes coming from remote places to a rural town with the hope to earn some money, sounds of all genres, thin handmade strings to take the animals along, women in colorful clothes sitting on…
Go Kenya, go future! 