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Blocked roads and yoghurt
Last Saturday we were handing out food - which was not always easy. However, we found some yoghurt on the way.
Lockdown-Gardening
Measures against the spread of the coronavirus have been in effect in Kenya since mid-March. My partner organizations first sent everyone to the Easter holidays (they close anyway over Easter) and then to the home office. The authorities have called for staying at home and avoiding unnecessary travel. So, like so many others around the world, I dealt with my garden.
Newsletter 3, May 2020
A Week In Nyahurur
Dear friends
The following newsletter describes some typical activities that I do in Nyahururu - packed into a fictional week. Of course, not every week is so crowded, but the individual events have all taken place as described.
Cooking lesson
Word has gotten around that I like to cook. And of course, my colleagues want to know what I'm cooking.As demonstrating is better than explaining I invited to a cooking lesson.
Learning Adventures
With some colleagues, we are planning - outside the organization - a series of extracurricular learning adventures for kindergarten and primary school children. At the first event, we explained the idea to the parents and did one or two activities together.
Learning Jass
Recently I went out with some colleagues. The vine was mediocre but it was enough for an introductory lesson in Jass, the favourite card game of the Swiss.
What can I buy here?
It is not always easy for Stargardtiens to recognize what a market woman or a shop offers. And the name of the shop doesn't sometimes help either.
Read more on stargardt.ch
Newsletter 2, November 2019
And who is hugging me?
L’Arche Kenya is the second organisation I am working for, so this time I will tell a little what they are doing. In a nutshell, l’Arche Kenya follows three steps: relation, transformation and sign. By establishing meaningful and fully-fledged relations between people with and without intellectual disabilities, both transform each other in the way of living their lives. This serves as a sign to the society that each person has something to contribute regardless of her/his condition or abilities. This newsletter tells the story of one of these transformations.