When I was in Nairobi last summer, I decided to sponsor two children’s education for one year, including a daily meal. One of those children was a very special girl, Jane Wamboi, the other a wonderful boy named Joseph. Here is Jane and Joseph letting you know who they are, and their dreams for the…
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the whole of the Moon
The day after the Incident was coming to an end. Little Giants in the morning, Jane, Joseph, & Eunice after that, and the story of the desks had all impacted me greatly in their own way. Our last stop was to the Eternal Hope Children’s Home. Oprah Ouma, someone whom I’d met briefly in past…
Paul & the desks
I first tried making a desk in Kenya in 2010, and failed miserably. The wood was far too tough to cut, the saw not sharp enough, or most likely I just didn’t have the strength or endurance to complete the task. I went back to mixing cement by hand and let others try to build…
Jane & Joseph
After my morning at Little Giants, we headed over to the next school to say our goodbyes, Unity Centre. Eunice, the school’s headmaster ( and my mom while I’m in Kenya) warmly greeted us, and with tears in her eyes, thanked us for all of the work we had done for her school and children….
Little Giants
The morning after the “Incident”, I awoke still feeling bitter about what had happened. Nothing anyone could say was really helping, it was a horrible feeling that I just couldn’t shake. After breakfast, we were all getting into our vans to go say our goodbyes to the various school projects we had been working…
The Qur’an incident
My last day in Lamu, Kenya started uneventfully enough, breakfast with the rest of the group outside on a beautiful, crystal clear blue sky morning. We were told to pack up our gear, and that we would be going into the town itself for a few hours before heading back across the Indian Ocean channel…
Education is the best Heritage
Since World of Difference believes that education is the key to a child’s future, we asked the staff at our resort in Lamu if they wouldn’t mind taking us to a local school for a visit. They gladly obliged. As we walked the sandy trail, the heat and humidity were getting the best of…
Oloolaimutia school & the Maasai
Before leaving the Maasai Mara safari and heading back to Nairobi, the WoD team visited a Maasai primary school, bringing them needed supplies, and then went to the local village to meet the Maasai people. It was Sunday when we went to the school, so unfortunately none of the kids were there, but the headmaster…
Ken & the bracelets
While a person is in Kenya, you will invariably meet people selling different wares : necklaces, pottery, everything African, artifacts galore. One of those people is Ken Wainaina, or as the people from World of Difference call him, Ken the bracelet man. Ken can make you any type of bracelet you may want, and will customize…
base camp Ol-moran : into the Maasai Mara
We awake at dawn, rising from our bunk beds in our hostel, quickly getting breakfast, then pile into our vans for the long drive out to our tent camp in Ol-Moran out on the Maasai Mara. For me, the Mara never loses it’s beauty or mystique. From your tent camp where you can unzip the…
Lake Naivasha
After working tirelessly for the first four days on the project in Nairobi, the team had earned a well deserved rest for a couple days. We we all so very excited as it was the first year of trying something new with World of Difference, a day on Kenya’s second largest freshwater lake ( the…
The day of blood
It was only one hour into working on the school project at Unity Centre, day one, when I dropped my trowel over the wall we were building, jumped over to get it, and then was accidentally dropped on some rebar by my brother as he was trying to help me get back up. I’ll spare…