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The best time to travel in Kenya. Is Kenya safe to travel?
Now it's Children's Day. You can imagine how many beloved gifts children in China will receive, and they all have cramps!
In Kenya, far away from Africa, what kind of gifts will children receive on Children's Day?
My colleagues are not less worried about this problem, because Kenya's Children's Day is a local legal holiday, and the children are not at school, so we should bring gifts to the children in advance. My local colleagues in Kenya have prepared many interesting small gifts for children in remote rural primary schools in Kenya.
The rugged mountain road is so bumpy that we will throw up all our breakfast!
Sometimes, I really hate African time. I was supposed to leave at 7:00, but it arrived at 8:30. Today, the place we are going to is called Kajiaduo, which is about 3 hours' drive from Nairobi, Kenya. Maybe everyone didn't sleep well in the morning and slept all the way to Cagado Town. Here, we need a rest. Edward, our boss, wears sunglasses and lets us get off for tea. Edward's bald head (not the Mediterranean caused by baldness) is a unique hairstyle of Kenyans. Because most Kenyans can't have long hair and look like bushes, they are all shaved, but they are clean and refreshing. ) About 45 years old, Kikuyu was born in a tribe. He is tall, but he has a big belly. It is said that he used to be a paratrooper in Kenya Air Force. There were only 300 paratroopers in Kenya at that time.
On the left is Edward.
It's about a group of 20 people having tea after sitting down, but actually having breakfast. Kenyans usually have breakfast around 10. Except for three people from China, we are all local employees. According to my experience, I should have a big breakfast, because where can I find food in the mountains? I can't expect lunch. Breakfast in Kenya features Samosa, a triangular bag filled with beef. Fried, crispy outside and fragrant inside.
After breakfast, the driver told me that it was 30 kilometers away from today's destination. I don't think 30 kilometers is far. I didn't expect it to take nearly an hour. That poor road! I guess the boss of the car rental company knows this is the only way and won't want to rent a car for us next time. I can feel his heartache. The chassis of the car has been scraped, but due to the narrow road, the roadside is covered with barbed acacia, and the paint on the car body has been scraped to the bottom.
This is the method. I feel back to my hometown in Quzhou rural area 20 years ago, and the road is also paved with gravel. At that time, there was no road in our hometown, and only tractors could drive in. Usually we go in and out, climb several mountains and walk 40 miles for more than five hours. I want to go to this place today. It is estimated that many children have never been out of that small mountain village.
We who can't dance, throw caution to the wind!
We arrived at the No.1 Primary School in Cagado on the bumpy road. This area is really dry. Even though it is the rainy season in Kenya, it is still surging and dancing.
The tribes here are Masai, and their language is slightly different from Swahili. I have been to Masai tribe before, so I know that the greeting of Masai people is "Supa", while the greeting in Swahili is "Ah Bali". If you meet a Masai child, when you say "Supa" to him, you should reach out and the child will automatically rest his head on you. This is the etiquette for children in Marseille to meet their elders.
The ceremony for Masai people to receive important guests is to let the young warriors and girls in the village sing traditional songs and welcome them with songs and dances. At school, transfer to senior boys and girls. The children are wearing orange sweaters with green and white plaid patterns inside. I don't know how many big brothers and sisters have worn these clothes and left them for freshmen. Anyway, look at many people's sweaters, either they don't fit here or they are cracked there. Several departments can't find a complete sweater.
The children greeted us with songs and dances. Of course, we have to show it, so we are invited to dance with people who can't dance. OMG, throw caution to the wind. Just twist it.
My first fan, oh yeah!
After the welcoming ceremony, it's time for us to bring presents to the children. Looking at the eager eyes of the children, for me, I still don't want to donate money directly to them. What I want to do is to open a window for children to understand the outside world through our little efforts. When we gave them the small fan printed with our company's brand, the first child wearing a pink shirt immediately raised the blue plastic fan with TECNO written on it and shouted TECNO, TECNO, and ran away.
Maybe this is the first time in their lives that they have fans.
Come on, say "Hello!"
Real football, wow!
Kenya was once a British colony. Kenyans' love for football seems to have started from knowing what football is, and they fell in love with it. Now the hottest thing in Kenya is gambling, and various gambling apps and websites have enriched the amateur life of fans.
In this remote mountain village, children also like this sport. Although they have a vast loess main stadium, they have never seen what real football looks like.
They once played a kind of football, which was made of many plastic bags with a little stuffing in them and then tied up constantly.
The tall and thin boy is the football captain of their school. It was Sarah, our local employee, who gave him the football.
Lunch is delicious, delicious!
For tribal children, the most important gifts on June 1 Day are not fans and football, but what we give them, which is enough for them to eat food for three months. This is an international aid organization, Actionaid, which helps us to make a reasonable plan, help us contact through professional NGOs, and really donate aid materials to places in need. Every student here has lunch every day, so this meal is very important for their growth. Everyone eats 150g corn beans and 45g red beans every day, plus a little vegetable oil and salt. This will be their lunch for the next three months.
These two kinds of beans are cooked together. It is estimated that many children in China can eat it now, or even not. And for them, this is the best taste!
One drink per person, limited supply.
The children had a good time. Perhaps this is the most delicious lunch they have eaten recently.
Tekno Superman, interesting!
After dinner, we played with Tekno's Superman. The children looked at the blue TECNO Superman who was much older than them with curiosity and fear. They are so thick-skinned, screaming after Superman, and the loess on the ground is crying all over the sky. I'm really worried that someone stabbed Superman with a small needle. That's not enough. Facts have proved that worry is unnecessary. This little superman is played by one of our local employees. Our local employees are happy to participate in such public welfare activities, and they do the same in their own countries. TECNO For them, this is a local enterprise.
Dynamic light wave!
High-tech gray machine, mysterious!
We hope to record all this with drone aerial photography, but the drone's buzz obviously attracted the attention of most students. The children watched curiously, wondering what this flying thing was.
Hey, what's that noise?
The children looked at the camera of the drone happily. Let's record this moment from another angle.
The school is not big, just two rows of school buildings, all aided by foreign aid agencies, and one classroom has not yet been capped. Now part of the school's electricity supply is solar energy.
The school is not big, and the planned area is large!
Our one-time donation can't really bring much change to children, but it is enough to make children curious about new things and let them know that the outside world is wonderful.
I think the children in these schools will have a good time on June 1st.
The Black Association recently published a new book, Traveling in Africa-Travel Photography and Later Guide.
The Black Society will donate 5 yuan RMB from the sales cost of each book, set up the Black Society's "Change the World" fund, and continue to invest the money in the "Change the World" project to help poor Kenyan children.
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