Planning for Facilitator Week

Thursday, August 5 and Friday, August 6, 2010

We’re busy planning for the upcoming facilitator workshops. We had worked on our handout packed for the four teaching methodologies that we are presenting next week. This was the best thing that we ever did because now
we can focus on planning and using the handouts as a guide.

We were also watching the referendum results on television:

Yes 69% 6,092,618

No 31% 2,676,152

There were concerns about the reaction results and the army was at the ready to deal with any problems but there none reported on the news. We were interested in the results because everyone region in Kenya except
for the area we’re staying in voted Yes. Apparently there are many land owners
in the Naivasha area of the Rift Valley who disagree with the changes to the
constitution concerning land.

We are starting to learn that Utimishi Academy is very self-sufficient. There are gardens to provide the kitchen with fresh vegetables, chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk and meat along with goats
and sheep. We saw a group of boys gathered in the garden area with workers
tying a cow’s legs together. We thought it was an agriculture lesson but were
surprised when they actually killed the cow. For the next several days we were
looking for beef on the menu.

We visited a used clothing market in Naivasha in the late afternoon. If you ever wondered what happens to the unsold clothes at Value Village we saw some of them in the market. Some of our group made purchases in the
market to prepare them for dressing for our facilitator sessions. Women usually
wear dresses here and occasionally pants so we wanted to be appropriately
dressed to facilitate sessions.