
KENYA 2020: What do you remember about school?
Most of us have memories of primary school that still stick with us years later. We helped create a number of them today. Class photos: We finished the class group photos for grades 5-8 today. It was fun to watch the boys tuck in their shirts, the girl’s bush off...

KENYA 2020: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Kenyans can find a solution to anything. If the government makes you chop down a stand of trees … you make desks and tables out of the best of the lumber and benches out of the rest. Today while checking on the use of large flash cards we have provided last year, they...

KENYA 2020: The Road Not Taken
Thursday night a team from Green Bay arrived. They come from the first church Grace Imathiu served. Every year they hold a 3-day leadership retreat for 40 high school students from 4 secondary schools. In addition to the retreat, they provide scholarships to pay...

KENYA 2020: How many students does it take to make a P&J sandwich?
Half the team began the day at Gichunge Primary where our arrival was marked with multiple verses of “If you’re happy and you know it …” sung by 200+ students at their morning assembly. That will get your blood flowing! Speaking of blood, Jeff and Margaret Punch...

KENYA 2020: What’s Blue & Gold and in Kenya?
Report from Monday March 2, 2020 The team made it safely to the Thiiri Center in Meru, Kenya where we joined several other University of Michigan teams working in the area. There is a team from the Dental School with 18 students. The Pharmacy School team has 7...

KENYA 2020: Can Your Walls Talk?
Report from Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Almost late to Gichunge Primary this morning … got caught in the unusual traffic jam shown below. Our work at the primary this year consists of ongoing projects and fresh initiatives. One of the ongoing efforts is to track the...