Weekly updates

It’s Tuesday, which means we finished our first week in Kenya! This week was all about getting to know the country, the organization, our partners and the Kenyan culture, which has been terrific so far! We will give you a short overview of the experience we had and the progress we made. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment. After we’ve been picked up from the…

At the end of last week, we finally reached the location where our project takes place! First, we finished our appointments around Nairobi, which included a very interesting and inspiring visit to the Skills Centre Vocational Training School. Then we left Nairobi, to travel to Molo, a small village in the mountains where another mission the Incarnate Word Sisters is located. We stayed in Molo for…

This week we started our need assessment officially. We organized several Focus Group Discussions with specific groups representing a part of the Pokot community. Beforehand we selected 5 Focus Groups; Women (mothers), Men, Elders, Youth and Children. Moreover, we did several Key Informant Interviews, to confirm the conclusions derived from the FGD’S and to gain more background information on the…

Until Friday last week, we have been very busy to collect all the information and video’s which had to be send out that weekend. Although we had to adjust our time-table to ‘African-time’ now and then, we managed to finish everything that we planned. We are happy with the results of the interviews we recorded on camera! On Friday Thirza and Martijn went to Nakuru and they plan to come back on…

Last week we did a lot of walking and processing of information. We visited the building site and a pan dam by foot and saved the GPS coordinates of important points. We typed out a lot of information from interviews, Focus Group Discussions and meetings in order to finish the needs assessment report. Interview with the chief We went to the office of the chief to talk with her about some…