Nairobi For hours in the morning, Sammy Ndirangu and David Musungu, ACORN Kenya’s organizers in Nairobi working in two villages in the Korogocho slum discussed their work and the issues that members were identifying around health care, education, and housing. In the afternoon we were joined by the chair of one of the groups, the …
Month: February 2010
Karen, Kenya Stalemate & Nairobi Return
Nairobi Flying to Nairobi takes forever. Seems to be no way around that fact, and despite email, Skype, digital pictures, and ubiquitous cell phones, anything nearly 5000 miles away is hard to hold firm in the hands. The work is slippery, no matter how hard applied, and there’s still nothing better than going out and …
Conversion Fees and Remittance Charges
New Orleans Packing for the flight to Nairobi over Sunday and Monday, I read with interest a piece in the times about the usual run of charges that companies were charging for use of credit and debit cards outside of the boundaries of the USA covered in the “Your Money” column in the Times by …