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Week 2 - Sister Freda's
... As her assistant, we went over to their house and tried to calmly introduce the project to them. We thought we were being clever by giving each kid a kit with beads and string and it worked for about 30 seconds. But once they started dropping beads the others would dive bomb for them and others would just knock beads out of each other’s hands. The string we used was also not very good and kept fraying. After about an hour I was about ready to get ...
Week 1 - Sister Freda's
... ward to go to her bed she looked at me and said "Bring me my baby". And bring her baby I did -what a great moment! I went to see her and the baby the next morning but she had already been discharged and on her way home.
The rest of the week I’ve been busy with “my project” which is to re-paint the paediatric ward (room) and bathroom. I choose to do this because there used to be 2 boys who live at the hospital full time that had ...
Onwards to Kitale for a rest
... and on our second day, visiting the Agroforestry Center, which was founded by Sweden. The center's main goal was to teach the locals about the importance of trees and large plants and how to integrate them into their farming systems here in the north of Kenya. So after amusing ourselves for about 20 minutes, Lyndi and I took off and grabbed a milkshake back in town. Actually it turned out to be a ...
1 day - 7 buses
... an exit stamp this time.
We were in Kenya! Now we needed to get to our first port of call, so after an argument about the price we got a minibus heading that way. It took forever to set off and like all journeys in Africa; stopped every 5 seconds for god-knows-what reason. We were randomly dumped at the side of a road but luckily there was (you guessed it) a minibus heading our way, it was clearly too full (African ...
Everything You Wanna know about Kitale :)
... to stay. The food is amazing, a three course dinner is 650 ksh. Should you need anything at all, the smiling staff is always there to lend a hand. The whole place has such a homey feeling to it, we never wanted to leave!
Travelling..
We only used two types of transportation, although there are three to choose from. Taxi, Piki piki (motorbike taxi) and a boda boda (bycicle taxi). We never got up the courage to take a boda boda, but we did find ourselves a ...
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