Meandering home

January 1. What exactly is a Community Excellence Center?

The idea is simple. In our information age we can share knowledge and expertise with a relatively low cost of resources. So we should support needy communities to do so. A CEC is a center in a small, mostly rural, community of say 1,000 people that functions as a link to the outside ...

31 January, 2010

CEC, Cente, Community Ecellence Center, Kenya, Vision Alive

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December 25-26. Merry.

If you are a special a Luo host will serve you chicken. On our first night here this happened. A hen walked in and out in the afternoon. We didn't hear her at night as we tasted the rosy strong flesh of Kenyan chicken. But christmas is something else. We have a goatmeal today, and ...

31 January, 2010

Christmas, Kenya, Kisumu, rainbow, sunset, Vision Alive

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December 21. Ilja’s birthday. Beginning of the orphanage.

And so we wake up and look around. We are in a house made of mud, the traditional Luo way of building, and we are surrounded by cattle, chicken, children, long grass and aloe vera plants. This is it. They show us the plot of land where we are going to build the orphanage and ...

27 January, 2010

orphanage, Vision Alive

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December 20. Lake Victoria!

We have a safe but exhausting Matatu journey to Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city, where we install ourselves for the first time in the cybercafé in the Megaplaza, which will become our main communication channel for the next weeks. We meet Philip, the future managing director of the orphanage, and like him at first sight. ...

27 January, 2010

flowers, Kenya, Kisian, Kisumu, orphanage, rainbow, Vision Alive

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Rainbow Community Excellence Center

In a small village near Kisumu, we have built an orphanage together with our Kenyan friends. Charity Travel provided building materials and wages for the workers. Many local and international volunteers helped out. Thanks! More than the foundation had been done after 2 weeks A small community can have a great vision. When we traveled ...

2 January, 2010

Africa, Community Center, Community Centre, Community Excellence Center, Kenya, Kisian, Kisumu, needy, orphan home, orphanage, Rota, Vision Alive

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