Post on 01-Apr-2015
KENYA VOLUNTOUR February 2013
Institut collégial Vincent Massey Collegiate
Service Learning Highlights
Build a school
Beading
Market
Swahili
Warrior Training
Water Walk
Community Connections
Community Visit
Adopt a Village
School Visits
Sight-seeing
Rift Valley
Safari
BEFORE WE BEGIN...
Tents were spacious and clean (swept and mopped, every day). A maximum of 4 persons were provided each a bed and armoire. Sheets were re-tucked every day with blankets and pillows re-staged.
Food was plentiful, un-processed and all cooked on open fire. There was no refrigeration.
Water was plentiful for drinking and limited for other purposes.
BUILD A SCHOOLInch by inch, foot by foot, brick by
brick!Our task was to finish digging a 4 foot deep by 300 foot long trench to serve as the foundation to a dormatory for the new FTC secondary girls school the community.
After 3 half days of work, we left the project with one work day left to complete. The foundation will be poured by mid-March!
BUILD A SCHOOL
Build hope and improve conditions through education!
CULTURAL APPRECIATION
We participated in four activities to promote cultural appreciation and awareness.
Beading
Sustenance Market
Swahili
Warrior Training
CULTURAL APPRECIATIONWater Walk
We carried 20 litre containers of water that were drawn from a watering hole shared by community members and animals.
On average, Kenyan mamas carry 20 litre jugs, 4-5 times a day, for a 4-5 km journey each time.
MAKING CONNECTIONSCommunity Visit
We visited three communities/schools to promote intercultural relations including VMC’s Adopt a Village - Alternative Income Project.
MAKING CONNECTIONSSchool Visits
RIFT VALLEY
Kenya is where humanity first evolved. Scientists have found over 230 skeletons of early human beings. This is why Kenya, and particularly a great five-thousand-mile slash in the Earth’s crust called the “Rift Valley”, is sometimes called “the cradle of humanity”.
SAFARI
We saw:
Elephant
Giraffe
Hyena
Monkey
Ostrich
Water Buffalo
Warthog
Zebra
SAFARI
We saw:
Elephant
Giraffe
Hyena
Monkey
Ostrich
Water Buffalo
Warthog
Zebra
Celebrations
Celebration
Friendliness and happiness
Growth and strength in ourselves and each other