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Welcome to our Africa Blog and Photo Sharing website! We are very excited to be able to share our experience with you. Thank you to everyone who has been so encouraging through their support and prayers!

We will be trying to update this site at least once a week whilie we are in Kenya. We leave on June 18th and will return August 5th.

More about the School we will be working with:http://www.marianist.com/video/video1.htm
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RayandJulie > Kenya, East Africa; June-August 2007 photo
RayandJulie > Village resident volunteering with a group to clean parts of the area up...
RayandJulie > Kenya, East Africa; June-August 2007 photo
RayandJulie > School in the Kibera Slum
RayandJulie > Last Sunday, Fr. Marty took us and some other volunteers out to lunch near Lake Naivasha. It was a very relaxing lunch in the countryside.
RayandJulie > The Great Rift Valley view point. 

It is said that human life first started in this valley, which stretches clear across East Africa, through Sudan and upward towards the Middle East.
RayandJulie > Looking further into poverty issues, you find that monetary analysis is just one part of the equation. Housing, health, education, food consumption, water sanitation, electricity, safety, and psychological despair and hopelessness are all taken into account. 

There are 16 'informal settlements', Slums, in Nairobi. 71% of the urban population of Nairobi lives within one of these slums. 

Most houses are only one room, made up of a tin roof, mud floor and mud siding- although you do see metal used for the sides as well.

Only 48.3% of slum households have access to clean water and safe sanitation. (the PICTURE) on the left is an example of a water station in Mukuru. In the mornings and evenings you will find lines of women filling up their water jugs for the day (about 2-3 shillings is the cost). The problem is that sewage and waste often seep into the water lines and that the area around the water station is contaminated with filth, waste and animals. (Goats and Chickens roam very freely within the Slums)  

*Most of this information has come from our meeting with the Jesuit Hakimani Center. This is the peace and justice center that conducts an annual social and economical poverty analysis of the Slums.
RayandJulie > Greetings from Mombasa! 

This past week (until Monday, July 23rd), we have been in Mombasa, a coastal city in Kenya. The Marianist's operate both a trade school and a parish here. 

Our stay in Mombasa has been very relaxing and warm. During our stay we visited Fort Jesus, a Crocodile Farm, and an animal reserve; where we hand-fed giraffes and monkeys (and hung out with a very old and large turtle)!!!  very cool. 

We also took a short 3-day holiday  to a beach in Malindi.  

We will be sure to update more photo's when we get back to Nairboi.
RayandJulie > It's true... Julie and I fed Monkeys.
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