Stories From The Field

The girls wrote their first song today all together. I could not be more proud.
Three days ago I started teaching the girls in Kibera music.
On the first day, I think I talked too much and too fast. Lectures were hard to sit through at 14 years old, I remember. I asked for questions and answered [...]

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This summer I had the opportunity once again to join Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in Kibera, Kenya, as a Seeds for Hope Teaching Artist volunteer. I created and implemented a follow-up program to the program I taught last year, “Poetry for Life”. This year we called the program, “Creativity for Life”. “Creativity for life” was [...]

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I was raised up speaking Kiswahili (mostly Sheng) and Dholuo. So English pretty much came second after Kiswahili (”Swa” as it known here). My current residence is Wanyee, this is a small estate off Ngong Road in the city of Nairobi. Before i moved to Wanyee. I lived in Mathare [...]

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Life in Nairobi has been bounteous, as can be expected from the trend of my other African tales. I am particularly overwhelmed by the people that seem to come into my path. Between Helen, individuals I had the privilege to volunteer with through Invisible Children, and now here in Nairobi, I am in rare company. [...]

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