Article 13 Initiative - Blog

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 since about 10:00 this morning and it’s now going on 4:00 pm…and we’re just approaching the half-way mark! I guess this means we’ll be frequent visitors to the cyber through the week.

This past week has been one of incredible highs and lows, what with my exhaustion manifesting itself as a head cold by wednesday, some miscommunications that led to frustrations but happily worked themselves out with some frank discussions, and a fantastic guest visit to SHOFCO.

On Friday afternoon, Ruth Oniang’o visited SHOFCO. She is a member of parliament and a professor, as well as the editor of the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development, and the director of the Rural Outreach Program. She was an incredible speaker and gave SHOFCO a nice little boost to morale and spirit that I greatly appreciated. She has promised the whole group a trip to parliament besides taking some time to think about what might be the best way she can help. I am most thrilled about her connection to the group in that she would like to partner her organization with SHOFCO, and I feel that as we puzzle over questions of sustainability, this is one link that we will leave behind that ensures the continued success of SHOFCO.

We have a week left in order to put together the SHOFCO newsletter, and a week and half to get the lulu.com book ready.
As we get busier and busier, we seem to write less and less on the blog, but we will do our best to add information here and there as we come back to the cyber through the week.