We approach the end of our journey, but there is still much to do! Working toward wrapping things up, we have our Monday meeting after a lovely Sunday with Naomi and her children. We plan for a team goodbye, as well as another funeral, as another member of the U-Tena team, Anthony, also lost his brother. With our own individual projects again, from editing videos and writing blogs to expanding the program and forming new partnerships, the team gets busy. Yet, some projects take priority, and we decided to first work on the survey analysis and report, as well as finalize the budget and implement our new ideas and plans, so that they can become self-sustaining. In our last days we attend a funeral, a dance competition, bond with the team at Harry’s, exchange gifts and goodbye’s. We say bye to the CBD as we shop for souvenirs for friends and family back home, and we say goodbye to Doonholm as we depart for the last time for a long time towards the airport. We each have different experiences in Kenya, and we will each miss different things and remember others. We have learned a lot and seen much-too much to ever be completely relayed in a million blogs. The culture and atmosphere are truly unique. Some aspects are frustrating, others beautiful and wholesome. We will miss many people here, many views from towers high up and savannahs real low, and many memories that will help guide us as we continue our journeys. As we say goodbye to the real Nairobi and all of Kenya, jumping over the equator once more, we will remember Albo and his family (Joyce, Barak, and Jane), and their phenomenal hospitality and cooking, Jonah and his fantastical, yet eloquent attire, Naomi and her coolness and composure, Ken and his dancing, Kevin and his realness, M’so and her style, Wambui and her Alvin, Snakeboy and his rhythm, Anthony and his kindness, Mzinga and his compassion, and the tens of KUZA girls that sat wide-eyed, ready to learn and take over the world by storm.
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About usWe are 5 students from Brown University that spent a month in Nairobi, Kenya learning more about our partner U-Tena. Specifically, we worked with the KUZA program which teaches sexual and financial literary to teenage girls. |