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Relative Poverty
Life is tough in Kenya at the best of times. The average wage out here is less than $100 a month with a huge percentage of people living on a lot less than that. What raises the average is a small percentage of extra-ordinarily wealthy people who live in palatial houses and drive cars most [...]
Pate Island Part 2
We took the orange tractor back to the beach after visiting the school to find a very welcome 4WD drive vehicle waiting for us. There literally are no roads on Pate, just walking paths through the vegetation and so to get around the islands you genuinely need a 4WD.
When I got into the car with [...]
Pate Island Part 1
Every year I have come out here I have traveled to Lamu island which is off the far north east coast of Kenya. Stonetown, the main village on the island, is a world heritage site and is so for good reason. The narrow streets, the lack of vehicles, the use of donkeys to carry people [...]
Reflections on the new Hub
I am in Kenya over a week now and it has taken me this long to write something about the new Hub that has been established in Mombasa. Part of the reason for this is that internet connectivity has been pretty shaky here all week with poor connection speeds and a number of power cuts.
The [...]
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