Oyaore osiepnas (Good Morning Friends)! The last few days I have been settling into rural life in Kenya, off the shores of Lake Victoria in a community of villages known locally as Kanyawegi. I am with two other UBC students, Nabeel and Gordon, to collaborate with the community under the organization GIVE, Global Initiative for Village Empowerment. Already, the welcoming into Africa has been rewarding and beyond my expectations. After 17 hours of flying, we were greeted at Nairibi airport by John, a cousin of Maurice who is our primary contact in Kanyawegi. We arrived in late evening but managed to stay up for a game of scrabble and some authentic Kenyan cuisine: ugali (thick porridge-like maize), sukuma wiki (superfood kale to “push the weak”), beans and mango. The following morning we took an early flight
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