Week of 5 Sept
Farmers Own Weblog - week of 5 Sept
I arrived in Nairobi on 3 Sept and spent some time with a Kenyan family in Langata, part of the kenyanisation process which included getting used to the food such as ugali, very good but struggled with the sheeps guts. Started to re-aquint myself with the geography of Nairobi. I bought myself a local phone as my UK phone cost a pound a minute when here.
I met Mildred on Monday for a very useful handover meeting, she left for UK on Monday evening and I have just had an e-mail from her that she is settling into a sunny Hull.
I came to Runda on Tuesday morning and was received by Charles, Julius and Stephen who were pleased to see me. I brought some clothes for them so they were happy.
Well I quickly found the usual african problems, the pickup still had no working indicators and no fuel, the landrover would not start and the electrical power went off for several hours.
I have now got the landrover working (it needed a new battery), I have got Jacky's computer working (it had a corrupted registry - Sam came over and we downloaded a massive Norton file which took all night - this seems to have fixed it). I have set up an account for my own computer with wirless connection at the Village Market nearby as a fall back.
I have read all Mildreds files concerning contacts with the donor agencies and now starting to follow up contacts for presentations. Jacky is not back yet, I have called her mobile several times but no connection, she must be still in Uganda. I have got the DVD working which we will use for presentations.
I have been speaking to Laban in Western Province regularly and he is very cheerful.
Will keep you informed via this blog. I feel quite encouraged so far.
3 Comments:
Hi Dad,
Good to see that you have set up the blog so we can all keep track of Farmersown and you have started to make some inroads. If there is anything I can do from Asia then please let me know.
Dave
Hi Tony
Good to hear you're settling in well in Kenya. Food sounds a bit different from that served at Bilton-in-Anstey!!
I'll try to keep you updated with progress on the funding front - and anything else that's relevant.
Application to Comic Relief will go in today and we have considerable interest from a Dutch funder. They have someone who wants to visit FO in Kenya early October - no doubt Jim will be in touch with you to arrange something.
Let me know if you need any info regarding the Business Plan and its connected items.
Best wishes
Stephen
Good luck with the presentations - we'll be interested to hear how you get on
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