Well, this is the final daily blog for this trip but do continue to watch the website as I am sure ongoing pictures will be added as Ray still has a further two weeks out here. Today we were down at the office in time for the weekly food distribution. Victor had once
Another bright, sunshine day. We were off down the hill at 6am for the breakfast distribution which today was mandazi and hard boiled eggs. (They take the eggs to school for later in the day). Ray popped round the corner from the office to watch the actual process of making the mandazi that the
Today was a partial break from Doxa work in that it involved a visit to the Emily Martin Rescue Centre, about 5 miles out of town and hidden up some very rural bumpy roads. As mentioned in a previous days blog, this is run by our old friend Esther who we met on one of
The normal working week has resumed over here after the weekend. During Saturday and Sunday we were able to spend some time reflecting on what has been achieved over the first week of our visit and what our next priorities need to be, particularly whilst Sarah is still out here. When we travel out
Day 6 Today is Friday which means that it is food distribution day for the families we support. During Covid lockdown and until very recently, this was being done by taking bags to each house and leaving them outside the door to be handed over at a distance. Now that social distancing is less
Day 4 The start of the day was a more leisurely one without us attempting to make it to the office in time for the breakfast run. Kim was involved in taking a lady from the slum to hospital on the back of the motorbike before we could all really get into other business
An early start this morning meant that we set off down the hill as soon as daylight had broken and it was safe for us to be out on the road with our bags refilled with some of the donations that we had brought over. We arrived in the office about 6.30 but had already
After what had seemed like a period of “wading through treacle” to organise all the relevant paperwork now required to travel to Kenya, we managed to successfully and painlessly board our flight at Heathrow and had a smooth uneventful flight over to Nairobi. At this point, things also seemed straight forward with us simply having
For many of us in the UK, we now have somewhat of a grasp on what life could look like for the next few weeks and months. It will no doubt be easier on some than others and have consequences that linger for months and years to come.
The final day of our trip is here