karen africa trip short
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Trip to Kenya and Uganda. Umoja East Africa FundTRANSCRIPT
Lambi Fund fellow, Masters degree in sustainable agriculture from Makerere University and advisor to Access for Action
Karen and Alex Zizinga in Uganda
Access for Action has severable sustainable development projects: Clean drinking water for community
Raise pigs, cows, goats and chickens for food security and income
Beekeeping
Women’s association
Makes charcoal from plantain leaves and candles from beeswax
Met up w/ 1st Congregational Church in Nairobi, Kenya
We stayed at Desmond Tutu Conference Center
Kibera – one of largest slums in world – in Nairobi
Action Foundation Center for special needs kids in Kibera
We brought books and art supplies for the kids
Karen with Akili Dada founder Wanjiru Kamau
Akili Dada – leadership incubator for young Kenyan women. Training for the next generation of leaders
Akili Dada team – strong powerful feminist leaders
Empakasi School
It was winter 72 degrees so they had to bundle up!
Green Belt Movement
Founded by my friend Wangari Maathai, first African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize
Mercy came to Haiti several years ago and met her again with GBM
Heard stories from Global Education Fund scholars
Presented SAT prep books
Visited John Mwangi and his family
He was a Lambi Fund fellow and trains people how to start up sustainable enterprises and become self-supporting
Had to show off that I could operate a well
It was hard!
I gave them a laptop
Teaching them how to use it
I gasped when I saw what was in their backyard
A crocodile!!!
We worshipped with the Church of the Holy Spirit of East Africa
Here is the church
Safari time
Zebras like to maintain eye contact
A rare sighting – a leopard!
Mama lion and her babies
I danced with Massai women
16 women married to two men
Singing with Massai children
Inside the chief’s hut
He showed us the medicinal herbs they used
Baby elephant walk
Our safari camp was next to a hippo community
The last afternoon there I had a glass of wine on the deck
When a family of giraffes walked by!
Umoja East Africa Fund
• Alex, John and I formed an organization to help people in Uganda and Kenya become self-sufficient. A hand up, not a handout.
• Education, training, food security, small enterprises.
• Filed paperwork and some of the groups you have seen here will be its first recipients of funding.
We will work together to make the world a better place!