A day in Nairobi

Nick Kemboi, Edwin Angote, and I all spent today around Nairobi. We spent the morning with Mama Margaret, working with her on syncing finances with our books (we now have a universal system of record keeping to make sure that each of our donor's dollars are maximized in their use). We were also working on the water tank project to try to get it installed by the time I return on Monday.

We then went downtown to the World Social Forum. It was quite a distance out of town, but with it being a fairly unique meeting for this nation - we decided to check it out. Margaret also told us that Pastor Nick (who oversees the Tenderfeet center) was a keynote speaker (on the 24th) and that Lahash and Tenderfeet were listed as participants for the work in Kibera.

We popped into a tent and the speaker was raising the alarm on water rights and the exploitation of the developing world by the WTO and large multinational corporations. The WSF is pretty much a reaction to the injustices of the bigger guys who run the nations and finances of our globe, but there were booths there for the UN and other large agencies.


After a couple of minutes in walked Wangari Maathai, who was the first African woman to earn the Nobel Peace Prize. She's a personal hero of mine, and has worked tirelessly for the environment here in Kenya. She shared some thoughts and then chaired the rest of the panel.

Tonight we'll be headed back to Eldoret to work with the Renew program some more. Please pray for our journey, and that we'll been unified as a team here and be able to encourage the ladies during this week.