My grant didn’t get funded (eff.) so it has now suddenly become increasingly important to meet my fundraising goal of $1000 by June 29. Donate here! I’ll post exactly what FSD said about my grant, complete with a blow-by-blow commentary of what I think about them tomorrow evening when I meet with Angie to talk [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mama Joyce’
Kenya is Random
Posted: June 22, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, AIDS, Arjun Khanna, Dog, Dr. Bomji, Emergency Responsiveness, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Grant, Green Garden, Health, Health Policy, Iguhu Health Center, Kakamega, Kenya, Kisumu, Mama Joyce, Matatu, Obama Gum, Patience, Patricia, Public Policy, Random, Rey, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
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First Day of Training
Posted: June 15, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, Arjun Khanna, Dr. Bomji, Emergency Responsiveness, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Grant, Grantwriting, Health, Health Policy, Iguhu Health Center, Kakamega, Kenya, Mama Joyce, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
I may or may not have spent the whole day pressing refresh on my gmail account to see if I got the grant. It has not been released yet. That, combined with my nervousness concerning the first training session that took place today, gave me one of those stress-induced sneezing attacks that I so often [...]
Running
Posted: June 13, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, Angie, Arjun Khanna, Boda-Boda, Cuisines, Emily, Food, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Go Fish, Hell's Gate, Host Family, Kakamega, Kenya, Mama Joyce, Running, Solitare, Spades, Spoons, Street Kids, Ugali
Today was relatively uneventful, except for the tons of vegetables I have sitting in my room right now. Yesterday night, as I was wrapping up work, Mama Joyce asks me if they eat ugali in the United States. For those who don’t know, ugali is just corn flour mixed with water and then boiled (there [...]
Driving Slow on Sunday Mornings
Posted: June 8, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, Arjun Khanna, Blue Stain, Chickens, Envila, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Kakamega, Kenya, Mama Joyce, Washing Clothes
Note: While this post was uploaded on June 8, 2009, it was written on June 7, 2009. Today was a very relaxing day, on the whole. I woke up at 10:00 am when everyone had already gone to Church. 10:00 am is apparently a ludicrously late time to wake up in Kenya. When Mama Joyce [...]
My Clay Pot
Posted: June 3, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, Arjun Khanna, Clay Pot, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Health, Hospital Charter, Iguhu Health Center, Kakamega, Kenya, Mama Joyce, Patient Survey
Yesterday and today I met Mama Joyce’s extremely gregarious sister, Mama Beatrice, from Nairobi. She came to visit her mother and was swung by the house for a night before she left this morning. She is very loud, very funny, and very friendly. She offered every single girl she knows to me in marriage, which [...]
It rains a lot in Kenya.
Posted: May 28, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, Arjun Khanna, Bats, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Kakamega, Kenya, Lolita, Mama Joyce, Nabakov, Rabies, Rain, Scorpions, Snakes, Virus, Washroom
It has been pouring buckets for several hours now. I would use the idiom “raining cats and dogs” but I am sure they have all drowned or have been swept away by the mudslides that are currently devastating what used to be a downhill path; I thought it would be insensitive to mock the poor [...]
Question: What Does “Sustainable Development” Really Mean?
Posted: May 27, 2009 in Kakamega, KenyaTags: Africa, AIDS, Arjun Khanna, Dr. Bomhi, Foundation for Sustainable Development, FSD, Health, Health Policy, Iguhu Health Center, Kakamega, Kenya, Malaria, Mama Joyce, Medication, Medicine, Public Policy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
What does “sustainable” really mean? I conclude that it is not as cut-and-dry as many might think and deserves a little expansion.
