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Flora
Black tea
Candle bush
Coffee
“Fever tree”
Hibiscus
Kalanchoe
Morning glory
Periwinkle
“Toothbrush tree”
(aka Shepherd’s tree)
Umbrella acacia
Whistling thorn tree
Yellow candle bush
Fauna
African elephant
African lion
Agama lizard
, top right
Baboon
Cape buffalo
Cheetah
, 2nd right
Crocodile
Dik dik
Eland
Gerenuk antelope
Grant’s gazelle
Grevy’s zebra
Impala
Jackal
Kudu
Leopard
Leopard tortoise
Oryx
Reticulated giraffe
Rhinoceros
Spotted hyena
Vervet monkey
, 3rd right
. . .
Bearded woodpecker
East African crowned
crane
, bottom right
Guinea fowl
Go-away bird
Ibis
Long-crested eagle
Maasai ostrich
Maribou stork
Palm nut vulture
Secretary bird
I
t is day 1 in Kenya
and already I am
beginning to
realize the premium
Kenyans place on
getting an education
for their children. I
find our visits to three
schools both eye-
opening and inspiring.
Ken Okoth ’01 is the founder of the Children of Kibera Foundation
that supports the Red Rose primary school (grades 1-6). The children
are eager to tell us what they are learning. They come out into the
school yard, surrounded by thick cement walls, and welcome us with
a song and a rap-like dance, and their eyes shine. Then they take our
hands and lead us out of the yard and down the street where we look
out at miles of the corrugated tin roofs of the huts they call home.
We go on to another school at the all-woman’s village of Omoja,
a center for homeless women where young girls go to escape early
marriage. Some of these women were widowed at age 15 and can-
not remarry so they had no place to go. Here at the village, they are
determined their children will know a different life from theirs and
education will be that ticket to a better life.
At Maji Moto (hot water) school in a Maasai village, the science
corner [emphasizes] Kenya’s conservation effort to teach the young
people the value of protecting their animals rather than hunting them.
Backpacks line the walls – three of them feature Dora the Explorer.
At all of the schools we leave books, pencils, pens, crayons, soccer
balls. And at all of the places we leave a piece of ourselves with these
joyous children who are the hope of Kenya’s future.
—Ruth Carling Budlong ’59
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I came away from this trip with the realization
that the women of Kenya have no basic human
rights and with gratitude that I am a woman
with choices. If I could return some day I would
work to empower women and help to educate
against female genital mutilation, the barbaric
practice which is still in evidence today.
—Anne Moore ’60