Today finally is the last day of the journey....
It is a day to say goodbye-Kwaheri in Swahili and to thank and share e-mails and phones with people...
I had the opportunity to visit the Kibera Youth Community Project in the morning.
Kibera is the biggest Favela( they don't like it here to call it Slum)...
It is not far from the City, it reminds me to Rio de Janeiro, and the favela Rozinha.
I went with Tom, the Aussie from the GYG and with Frank a local who brought us to the hear of Kibera...
We participated at a discussion about mussic and it was nice to share some experiences being a pianist...
The sanitation, waste treatment, water supply and other environmental services almost don't exist...we went to visit some of the dumping sites, where there isn't division of waste and it seems that there are not recycling facilities...
There were lot of kids around, and some people working with craft...
music is still quite important, and you could read messages such as #audio# for rent, as a type of disco in Kibera.
The main reason for the visit is to write a report and send it to Dunkan, an irish friend from college, based in Barcelona and currently writing a lot on this...
more details on Kibera done by Dunkan
kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/450.php -
If you had the opportunity to watch the Constant gardener film also filmed in Kibera
http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?Pg=1&ContentID=12233
In the afternoon I was back at the venue of the forum to continue interpreting, this time the last session of the International Council meeting.
A big pleasure to be interpreting together with a Galizan who also works as an interpreter for the European parliament...
Simultaneous interpreting is normally done in a cabin,but here the facilities were not there...
The event finished and I had an interview with a woman activist from Kenya involved in the Debt relief campaign who is also good friend of Nessa, an Irish friend of mine.
Will continue with some updates in the blog. but the flight is leaving tonight and want to make sure that the passport is in a safe place until now
Kwaheri Kenya
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This is a photograph taken in Kibera. Frank works for the Kibera Youth Community Centre. He is a singer, musician and loves the book of Angela Ashes... would love to visit Ireland some day
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