I was looking back over some of my past entries and realized that if they didn’t know any better, a casual reader of this blog may think that I’m on some sort of extended holiday here in Kenya. Baby elephants, beaches, snorkeling, exotic get-aways to idyllic islands in the Indian Ocean - I could understand their confusion. I think I need to set the record straight and use this blog to explain a little more about what I’m dong here (read: justify myself to those of you in very cold, economic-crisis stricken countries). As you probably know, I’m a VSO volunteer, placed in a Mombasa based NGO called Solidarity with Women in Distress (Solwodi) to help them become a more sustainable organization. At the moment, they have sporadic, unreliable funding and my job is to help
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