Browsing all posts in "Africa".
Marsabit
Marsabit. It’s a bit like Mars, but without the long trek across the solar system. Though after nine spine-rattling hours along a dusty, boulder strewn road, I staggered out of the 4×4 Land Rover looking as if I’d just spent a month in space. The landscape was an incredible mix of red volcanic rock and [...]
Helpless
Water flows out of the well and onto the dusty hands of 50 or so laughing school children who crowd in to get a drink during a break between classes. The school is a cinder-block shell along a sandy road deep in the bush of southern Mozambique and the very fact that it exists at [...]
Water Is Life
The human body is 70% water. A 3% loss of water can reduce a person’s ability work by 20%. For your average 60lb school-age child, that amounts to a standard nalgene-bottle full of water. Under exertion, the human body can sweat twice that in an hour. Now imagine sub-Saharan Africa, 90 to 110 degree heat [...]
Of Course…
Late last year when traveling through a village in central Kenya Jena and I came across a 4-year old orphan girl suffering from club foot syndrome. For those of you not familiar with club foot, it is a birth defect that affects the feet, typically causing the feet to turn inwards and sideways. It’s a [...]
Communities of Hope
The following is a post from the Blood:Water Mission blog which I wrote while in Africa this past May: I’m in Africa. It’s been 9 years since I last set foot on this continent and I must confess that I have missed it greatly. There is a certain rhythm that pulses through this continent; a [...]
