London Flew the long way to save some dollars from Nairobi, flying more than 3 hours to Johannesburg and then almost 11 hours to London. Couple more days and another trip will be over but for the mop-up, but there are some notes that need to still be sorted through in coming weeks. One …
Month: May 2007
First Fruit
Nairobi We had been failing to connect the entire time I was in Nairobi. Messages left at either my hotel desk or the reception at the Methodist Center were near misses as we ran to meetings, or she was out in the country. Kate Atkins, my international right hand, who has been helping me put …
NGO-ville II
Nairobi There are big NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and small ones. Some are rich and some are poor. When I was first in Nairobi in 2004, the phenomena was new to me so I was simply staggered by the size and variety of NGO’s seemingly everywhere I looked. The other thing that complicated the African picture …