Enjoy the Partners for Hope 3rd update.
——Original Message——
From: Dan Kellenberger
Sender: Dan Kellenberger
To: Connie Cheren
Subject: 3rd update – Partners for Hope team travels to Kisumu
Sent: Oct 14, 2009 11:41 AM
Early yesterday morning we travelled to Kisumu which is a 6 hour drive
west of Nairobi. It sits right at Lake Victoria. We then went on to
Siaya an hour northwest. We stopped at a village market where we felt
like rock stars. The children and the women loved us and we loved
them! They were excited to see African American women. We shopped
buying their goods. We gave the children the lollipops we brought. We
hated to leave. We then went to George’s family who lives on a boma –
what we would call a small farm. George is one of the Temples of
Worship musicians. George’s family is Luo like Obama. They live very
traditionally with 1st and 2nd wives. Unfortunately, the HIV/AIDS has
come to their boma. We were given a traditional meal of two kinds of
brown ugali, chicken and greens. Due to the drought there is a lack of
food in this area. We brought for George’s family two large bags of
maize which will feed them for sometime and left money for food. We
went to our hotel and we must admit we were somewhat out of comfort
zone but did fine. The lights kept going off, the toliet had no seat
and let’s just say there were no little bottles of shampoo and lotion!
One of us thought of putting water on the floor in front of the door
because we didn’t trust the lock on the door but we decided we would
probably be the first ones to slip.
From the villages of Kenya,
The Partners of Hope Team
Sent via Cingular Xpress Mail with Blackberry
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