Tiwi Villas Mombasa

... is not hard enough, what must it be life to have to walk miles and miles to visit your daughter at school because you can not even afford bus fare of less than 50 cents?

Witness was abandoned at just 3 weeks old. Although her father lives in the area, Witness never met him.

Tears strolled from her mother's eyes as she thanked us again and again in Kiswahili for coming to rescue her daughter. She gave her full support for Witness to ...

... It took up an hour, so I have no space left to record more on my video camera, but I’m definitely going to keep all of it because it was really moving and inspiring.  Like at the other WEEP centers, these women are all HIV positive and came to the WEEP center weak and barely alive, struggling to take care of their children.  Now they all know how to sew mosquito nets, which they make for a profit because we have a large grant for their specific center. 
Mombasa, Kenya katie.in.kenya

... you starts twirling again or you go the fridge and something smells pretty pungent), no power, no internet, no internet no Blog I'm afraid. So I start a new entry and then the power goes off, but worst of all is that I start to download a few pictures and its lost in space as there is no mega internet speed here; it is slow and cumbersome (remember years ago your home computer used to take 10 minutes to arrive in Yahoo); well I guess if I was at the top of a ...

... each of these photos and you'll see what I mean! So choosing the softest and safest option to preserve by bottom I spent most of my time sprawled over the fishing nets avoiding the floats and weights and occasionally unpicking the net from the buttons on my shorts; but what a treat and I know the pictures don't do this place justice - of course I've seen more natural beauty in some of our great lakes and highlands and around parts of Canada ...

... skewing them within the Kenyan cultural context. For example, a discussion/argument broke out about whether a husband forcing his wife to have sex with him is rape. Of course, by international human rights standards this is rape, but many people in the workshop (both male and female) didn't agree with this. It was these types of situations where the trainer allowed the group to come to their own consensus instead of providing them with the facts from the ...

... of weeks; they let me use their kitchen to cook my own food and, more importantly, Marie and Ka Ka are lovely, conscientious, hardworking people just scrapping by as tourism has been terribly affected with all the election problems and corruption over the last year. I've been here 4 days now and learn't so much; a lot of it terribly sad; there is poverty everywhere, some local people are dying because they can't afford to receive medicine for ...

... auf Suaheli) ueb** den Weg gelau... aeh, gefahren. D** Grund fu** meine Umrundung: Die Flamingos waren nicht das einzige Lebende am See. Schon als ich durch das kleine Waldstueck zwischen d** Strasse und dem Gewaess** fuhr, sind mir schon die Handvoll Paviane in den Baeumen aufgefallen. Dazu sind auch nach und nach imm** mehr Antilopen und Gazellen aus dem Gebuesch ans Wass** gekommen. Und als ich dann da einfach so ahnunglos, mutt**seelenallein und ganz v**traeumt mit meinem ...

... Nairobi and were picked up at the airport buy the hotel bus. Well the roads leave a lot to be desired. They are alright between towns and villages but then they turn into dirt tracks,  pot holes and all.  The hotel was fair but we felt  it had seen better days when the American dollar was welcome, but it was very clean and comfortable. There wern't  that many people in the hotel because it was out of season, evidently the start of the ...

... is the plan so far, we have to chat to the woman who founded the place this week to make sure we are correct and source one and get it fitted. the main reason for this piece of inspired Genius is me working all day day in the kitchen Spinach, beef, veggies and Pap meal (Ugali) for 32! god i am shattered! again. It was great fun though and the kids are so well behaved and clean the place after themselves, but back to the start ...

Mombassa is hot hot hot and its winter, the beaches are amazin, but what is more amazin is that i am translocating elephants from shimba hills to tsavo cant explain it in words chasing and being chased by nelly got kicked by a baby elephant good god it hurts like hell, got a lump on my head the size of a tennis ball, a gash in my arm and two buggard ankles having to spend a couple of days in the lab to let wounds and sprained ankles heal. the baby elephants are not ...