As you may remember, one of my major projects at MamaMikes was putting together the Social Outreach Program. We teamed up with Mama Fatuma children’s home and created a system by which anybody in the world can select packages ranging from toiletries, books, food, bedding, school uniforms, etc. and have them delivered to the home. I [...]

This morning I received an e-mail advertising the World Affairs Council of DC — an organization that creates a forum with a very wide array of global leaders and scholars open to members of the DC community. The e-mail caught my attention and I visited the website to learn more, and on the site was [...]

So one of my pet-projects this semester has been integrating the needs of community based organizations and the global reach through e-commerce that MamaMikes.com has developed over time. I established the MamaMikes Social Outreach program to create a new medium by which non-profit organizations in Kenya can gain access to a new donor base, ease [...]

Less than two weeks until I depart Kenya to go back home. I am looking forward to being done with the semester and getting back to school in Washington. I’d definitely like to come back and do more traveling with a smaller group of people. I just did a YouTube video last week as part [...]

I realized it has been a long time since I’ve posted. I’ve been caught up in a great deal of stress rooting from USIU, program work, and day-to-day life in Nairobi. The below post was delayed, in part so I could have some time to think about it and ensure it wasn’t posted too close [...]

A number of us attended Kuel’s funeral on Saturday (3 November 2007). We arrived at the cemetery around 1:30 where several tents were set up and several funerals were going on at the same time. We made our way to the tent in front of which Kuel’s casket sat. Inside the tent, family and friends [...]

This last Friday morning (Oct. 26) we woke up early to pack our stuff after a long and late night of partying at Casablanca (a nightclub a good distance away from where we live in Nairobi). In about 20 minutes I managed to utilize my superpowers to shower, get dressed, pack, and be at the [...]

Friday the 5th of October, our program group set off for weeklong trip to the northernmost part of Kenya: Lake Turkana. Turkana is a desolate part of the country that even local Kenyans we told we going there dropped their jaws, and in the movie “The Constant Gardener” it is described as “Hell”. We woke [...]