The best time to travel to Kenya? Is it safe to travel to Kenya?

Kenya is part of the African continent. It is also a land of artifacts. Kenya once had its glory and prosperity, but with the spread of the financial crisis, Kenya is still in a very difficult environment. Here is what I will tell you Share the best time to travel to Kenya and the safety factors.

On Children’s Day now, you can imagine how many beloved gifts the children in China will receive, and their hands will cramp when receiving the gifts!

And in faraway Africa, Kenya, What kind of gifts will the children here receive on Children’s Day?

My colleagues have been worried about this issue, because Children’s Day in Kenya is a local legal holiday, and children are not here school, so we have to bring gifts to the children in advance. My local Kenyan colleagues have prepared many interesting gifts for children in remote rural primary schools in Kenya.

The rugged mountain road was so bumpy that we almost vomited our breakfast!

Sometimes I really hate the African time. We obviously made an appointment to leave at 7 o'clock, but it turned out that It’s 8:30. The place we are going to today is called Kajiado, which is about 3 hours’ drive from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Maybe everyone didn't sleep well in the morning and fell asleep all the way to Kajiado town. We need to take a short rest here, and our tour leader Edward, wearing sunglasses, calls us to get off the car and drink tea. Edward

Bald head (this is not the Mediterranean caused by baldness, this is a unique hairstyle of Kenyans, because most Kenyans cannot grow long hair, and the hair grows like a bush, so Maybe they just shaved off, but they looked clean and fresh. )

He was about 45 years old. He was from the Kikuyu tribe. He was tall but had a big belly. It was said that he was originally a paratrooper of the Kenyan Air Force. At that time, Kenya was the only one in the country. 300 paratroopers

The one on the left is Edward

We said they were drinking tea, but after a group of 20 people sat down, they actually had breakfast. Kenyans usually have breakfast around 10 o'clock. We Except for three Chinese, these 20 people are all our local employees. In my experience, you should have a full breakfast, because when you enter the mountainous area, where can you find food? Don’t expect lunch. The specialty of Kenyan breakfast is Samosa, which is a triangular bun with beef inside, fried in oil, crispy on the outside and fragrant on the inside.

After breakfast, the driver told me that we were still 30 kilometers away from today’s destination. I thought 30 kilometers was not far away, but I didn’t expect that it would take nearly an hour to drive 30 kilometers. That road is bad! I guess if the owner of the car rental company knew that we were going this way, he would definitely not be willing to rent a car to us next time. I can feel his heartache. The chassis of the car was scratched. He said that because the road was narrow and the roadside was covered with thorny acacia trees, the paint on the car was almost scratched off.

It’s a road like this. It feels like I’m back to my hometown in the countryside of Quzhou 20 years ago. The roads were also covered with gravel. At that time, our hometown didn’t have a road, and only tractors could drive that kind of road. Drive in. We usually walk in and out, climbing over several mountains, and it takes more than 5 hours to walk 40 miles. I think that in the place I went to today, many children have never left the small mountain village.

We, who can’t dance, risked our lives!

We arrived at the first Kajiado Primary School amidst the bumps along the way. This area is indeed very dry, even now in Kenya. During the rainy season, the wind here is still full of dust.

The tribe here is the Maasai tribe, and the language they speak is slightly different from Swahili. I have been to the Maasai tribe before, so I know that the Maasai people greet each other with: "Supa." ", and the Swahili greeting is: "Ah Bali". If you meet a Maasai child, when you say "Supa" to him, you have to stretch out your hand, and the child will automatically touch you with the top of his head. palm. This is the etiquette for meeting older people among children in Maasai.

The Maasai people's ceremony to receive important guests is to let the young warriors and girls in the village sing traditional songs and dance to welcome them. At school, senior male and female students take their place. The children were wearing orange sweaters with green and white plaids on the inside. I don’t know how many older brothers and sisters wore these clothes left over and gave them to the new students. Anyway, I looked at many people’s sweaters. It’s not that they are out of line here. Yes, it's cracked there. I can't find a complete sweater in several parts.

The children came to greet us with singing and dancing, and of course we had to express our gratitude, so even those of us who couldn’t dance were invited to dance with us. OMG, be brave and just twist around.

My first fan, oh yes!

After the welcome ceremony is over, it is time for us to bring gifts to the children.

Looking at the eager eyes of the children, for me, I still don’t want to donate money to them directly. More, I hope that through our little efforts, we can open a window for the children to understand the outside world. When we write When our company-branded small fans were distributed to them, the first child in a pink shirt to get the fan immediately held up a blue plastic fan with TECNO written on it, shouted TECNO, TECNO, and ran away. .

This may be the first time in their lives that they own a fan.

Come on, come on, everyone say "Hello!"

Real football, wow!

Kenyans were originally a British colony, Kenya People seem to fall in love with football as soon as they know what it is. The most popular thing in Kenya now is football betting. Various betting apps and websites have enriched the amateur life of the majority of fans.

In this remote mountain village, children also love this sport. Although they have a vast loess main stadium, they have never seen what real football looks like.

They used to play a kind of football that was made of a lot of plastic bags, with a little stuffing inside, and then continuously tied together.

This tall and thin boy is the football captain of their school, and the person who gives him the football is our local employee Sara.

“Delicious” lunch, delicious!

For the children of the tribe, the most important gift for Children’s Day is not the fans or footballs, but what we gave them , enough food for them to eat for 3 months. This is the international aid organization Actionaid

Help us make reasonable plans, help us connect through professional NGO organizations, and truly donate aid materials to those in need Place to go. Every student here eats one lunch every day, so this meal is very critical for their growth. Each person eats 150 grams of corn beans, 45 grams of red beans, plus a little vegetable oil and salt every day. This is their lunch for the next three months.

If these two kinds of beans are mixed together and cooked, it is estimated that many Chinese children will not be able to eat them. For them, this is the best delicacy!

One cup per person, rationed supply.

The children had a great time eating, perhaps this was the most "delicious" lunch they had eaten recently

TECNO Superboy, interesting!

After dinner, let’s play with TECNO’s little superman. The children looked at the little blue TECNO Superman with curiosity and fear, which was much bigger than them. They were so fresh, they screamed and chased after the little Superman, and the loess on the ground flew all over the sky. I was really worried that someone would prick Superboy with a small needle, but later it turned out that the worry was unnecessary. This little superman is played by one of our local employees. Our local employees are very happy to participate in such public welfare activities. This is such a meaningful thing for them to do in their own country. To them, TECNO is a local company.

Dynamic light waves!

High-tech little drone, mysterious!

We hope to record all this with drone aerial photography, but the buzz of the drone The hum clearly attracted the attention of most students. The children looked around curiously, wondering what this flying thing was.

Hey, what’s the sound?

The children happily looked at the drone footage, let us record this moment from another perspective

The school is not big , there are only two rows of school buildings, all of which are funded by foreign aid agencies. There is still one classroom that has not yet been completed. Now some of the school's power supplies are solar energy.

The school is not big, but we plan to occupy a large area!

Our one-time donation cannot really bring much change to the children, but it can make the children's hearts open to new things. Being curious and letting them know that the outside world is wonderful and Makea

different is enough.

This Children’s Day, I think the children in these schools will definitely have a great time.

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different project for poor children in Kenya.