Day 6: 
Today TY, Alex, Wangechi and I travelled to Garissa in northern Kenya where we will be staying for 10 days in order to learn about the LIME project from the people directly involved in it. The journey took approximately 5 hours and included an unplanned stop to change an exploded tire. We were quite lucky not to end up in an accident mainly thanks to the skill of the driver who managed to keep the car on the road even tough we were travelling at 100 km/h. The journey was very interesting once we left Nairobi we travelled through a region which seemed very good for agriculture infact Lazio’s president, Cragnotti, owns most of the fertile land. We passed several villages and the further away we got from Nairobi the further apart the villages were. Once we passed the town Mwingi the villages started to disappear the people leaving in this part of Kenya are mainly nomadic and the land is arid and therefore not many people live here.
What struck me the most was the configuration of the villages they basically are formed of a row of building either side of the road and people just gather around these areas. People are waiting for busses mainly to sell goods to the traveller or to board them with some sort of goods that I guess they will sell to the next big town. Along the road there are smallholder house with a poorly cultivated plot of land and the roads are scattered with people walking to the next village. What struck me the most were the kids walking from school wearing matching uniforms and carrying a plate. Alex explained that in this region, which is badly affected by a draught, kids get the main meal at school, and the food is provided by humanitarian aids.
Today was the first contact I had with “Africa”. No reportage or documentary can actually prepare you for it! I have this sense of wanting to do something to help and I feel so helpless! I keep thinking that I need to work very hard on my assignment for care in order to provide the best help I can give, but I am also aware that I won’t be able to “solve Africa’s problems in 3 month
Today TY, Alex, Wangechi and I travelled to Garissa in northern Kenya where we will be staying for 10 days in order to learn about the LIME project from the people directly involved in it. The journey took approximately 5 hours and included an unplanned stop to change an exploded tire. We were quite lucky not to end up in an accident mainly thanks to the skill of the driver who managed to keep the car on the road even tough we were travelling at 100 km/h. The journey was very interesting once we left Nairobi we travelled through a region which seemed very good for agriculture infact Lazio’s president, Cragnotti, owns most of the fertile land. We passed several villages and the further away we got from Nairobi the further apart the villages were. Once we passed the town Mwingi the villages started to disappear the people leaving in this part of Kenya are mainly nomadic and the land is arid and therefore not many people live here.What struck me the most was the configuration of the villages they basically are formed of a row of building either side of the road and people just gather around these areas. People are waiting for busses mainly to sell goods to the traveller or to board them with some sort of goods that I guess they will sell to the next big town. Along the road there are smallholder house with a poorly cultivated plot of land and the roads are scattered with people walking to the next village. What struck me the most were the kids walking from school wearing matching uniforms and carrying a plate. Alex explained that in this region, which is badly affected by a draught, kids get the main meal at school, and the food is provided by humanitarian aids.
Today was the first contact I had with “Africa”. No reportage or documentary can actually prepare you for it! I have this sense of wanting to do something to help and I feel so helpless! I keep thinking that I need to work very hard on my assignment for care in order to provide the best help I can give, but I am also aware that I won’t be able to “solve Africa’s problems in 3 month
posted by Riccardo Cosentino at 11:30 PM
1 Comments:
Where there is a will there is a way.. We can at least place a goal to rid Africa of severe poverty with in our generation hopefully. I am sure you will do a great job for CARE.
2:55 PM
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