http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:16:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a bit post-dated for our Kenya blog, but relevant nonetheless. HUMPHREY OKORE IS BEING PUBLISHED BY THE NAIROBI STAR!!!! I am thrilled to have heard from him this morning, telling me that the paper wants him to become a Kibera correspondent, contributing perhaps daily, which is an amazing step forward ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=61 Dear Faithful Blog Readers, Wojciech and I arrived home safe and sound just over two weeks ago, and I think we have both been so busy catching up with our Toronto lives, trying to graduate from university (one of us), and seeing friends and family that we have not been dutifully ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=60 Visitors may have noticed we haven't been posting much again, but this is simply because we are now back in Canada. After a good, solid seven weeks abroad, we've returned home to continue with our projects, our lives, and FMM as a whole. Reflections will be coming, and we're ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=59 Who knows how many blogs remain, but here sit Wojciech and I, printing newsletters for our big launch party with SHOFCO today.  Together with Cara's Capacity Building and Sustainability class, we will celebrate the culmination of a long journey together, with songs, skits, soda, and fruit! Yesterday, we (I hope) averted ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=57 Jambo, It has been quite some time since I was last able to send an email home, which is due to the fact that as the end of this incredible journey approaches, there are skillions of things to wrap up, and I have had quite a rotten cold. Sometime during ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=58 We're now uploading photos for the Shoot Nations photography contest. I'm impressed and very happy with the photos because they are very good and we actually managed to get this far. We uploaded about two thirds of the photos yesterday and today the cyber cafe donated some computer time for us ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=56 Today has to be the most mundane of our days so far in Kenya. This is because we are sitting, twiddling our thumbs at a cyber cafe, while we try to upload 60 photographs on a slow internet connection to the Shoot Nations photography contest. we've been here ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=55 It's been a hectic few days here, thinking and working on a number of different things at once. I think this week is a week of meetings and logistics, visioning and thinking. It's been an emotionally strange week because of everything we've covered during chats, interviews, and meetings. We had ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=54 Saturday is our practical day at SHOFCO, and this morning while some went out into the field to take photographs and as Wojciech taught programming to a few keen students, I made pancakes.  With the assistance of Anne Chege and then the company and conversation of Dorah and David, I ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=53 Habari ya subuhi, It is now about halfway through our time here in Kenya, and I’m starting to feel the effects of being away from home for almost a month. I am not homesick as I had well expected to be, but I certainly am tired. And I ... http://www.11-55.org/a13iblog/?p=52