As my second week in Kenya is drawing to a close, life is beginning to feel more like a routine. We have officially had five days of class, and thus a whole week of Kiswahili lessons. Using the language is difficult though, when it seems like no one really completely EVER speaks swahili... My host family is making efforts to use it around me, despite the fact that each member speaks about 3+ languages a piece and usually just mixes all three.
Yesterday our SIT group visited the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)'s international headquarters in Nairobi and learned a little bit about how they aid in bringing health care to rural communities. As an NGO, AMREF not only trains community health workers for local clinics and dispensaries, but offers educational programs in every almost every type of health care training and builds wells and building sanitation facilities. Today we are going to see the WOFAK office in Nairobi (Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya) and then more Swahili lessons!
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Sarah thanks for your posts I am enjoying your updates. Hope we can talk soon. Love you.
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