Jambo everyone! Karibu Kenya! Welcome to Kenya!
After a grueling 12 hour (with 3 hours transit in Doha) flight + 9 hour bus journey (after the 20 of us landed in Nairobi) we arrived at the state of Kisumu - the 3rd largest city in Kenya. Finally after almost 24 hour being in a sitting position, I got a proper sleep in the bed in the hotel we stayed in. It's not hotel in all its sense - those like you would expect by western standards - but it's a fairly decent place (except for occasional water supply interuption) and that's where I would be staying for the next 12 days.
The next morning, we had induction on what about Kenyan Orphanage Project (KOP), went around the town, and visited some of the project sites that Barts and The London supports, many of those are quite far from the Kisumu town centre itself. There is a marked difference between the rural and urban areas in Kisumu. You hardly see any 'modern' buildings in the rural areas. Houses are made of animal wastes (dungs) and hardly there is a house made of wood or bricks. Houses are not supplied with basic utilitites. Many people in Kisumu, more obvious in the rural areas walk to go to places they want to go, and very few who can afford bicycle, let alone a car ( although in this agricultural-based area I occasionally saw fully-loaded trucks). In town where everything is centralised, things are very scattered in the rural areas, with nearest school and health centres can be as far as one hour's walk.
Interesting fact of the day: the world's highest number of wives married to a man is in Kenya - 265 wives! He must be extremely rich to afford that. He built school for his own children. Well, as you may expect, it's definitely difficult to remember, let alone identify which of the children in the village are his. So, people take advantage of this!
The next morning, we had induction on what about Kenyan Orphanage Project (KOP), went around the town, and visited some of the project sites that Barts and The London supports, many of those are quite far from the Kisumu town centre itself. There is a marked difference between the rural and urban areas in Kisumu. You hardly see any 'modern' buildings in the rural areas. Houses are made of animal wastes (dungs) and hardly there is a house made of wood or bricks. Houses are not supplied with basic utilitites. Many people in Kisumu, more obvious in the rural areas walk to go to places they want to go, and very few who can afford bicycle, let alone a car ( although in this agricultural-based area I occasionally saw fully-loaded trucks). In town where everything is centralised, things are very scattered in the rural areas, with nearest school and health centres can be as far as one hour's walk.
Interesting fact of the day: the world's highest number of wives married to a man is in Kenya - 265 wives! He must be extremely rich to afford that. He built school for his own children. Well, as you may expect, it's definitely difficult to remember, let alone identify which of the children in the village are his. So, people take advantage of this!
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