Transition Town Kakamega & Rainforest

Dear friends,

the last week was full of meetings. But, it was worth it: Transition Town Kakamega is finally registered on TransitionNetwork.org (https://www.transitionnetwork.org/) as mulling initiative! Together with the core team we met Florence Masika, an assembly member of Kakamega County, and also visited the Mission of the Fatherless as stakeholder of TT Kakamega. On Friday, 19th the registration of the initiative was successfully completed by the core team! Lets hope for a good development of the newly founded movement!

Sebastian, Florence Masika & me

Prisca of the core team & Sebastian

Hillary, Bridgid & Sharon of core team

On the weekend, we had a trip to Kakamega Rainforest. There, we took the Yala River Walk together with Nixon, chairperson of KEEP. He told us about the challenges of preserving the rainforest and gave us some hints, how to survive in the wilderness. After 6 hours of walking and enjoying the beauty of the forest, we ran into people, caring their selfmade brew out of the woods. All in all, it was an enjoyable and nice trip after all the hard work!

The Yala River

The beautiful rainforest

Nixon at the Yala River

Field of tea at the entrance of the rainforest

People caring brew

Wish you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Frauke

Walk around our new hometown

Hey friends,

the last weekend we had a walk aroundour new hometown Kakamega. Mophat showed us all different districts of the city. And we really fell in love! But see on you own:

Neighborhood of Mophat

The green campus of Masinde Muliro

Mophats home and our friends!

A view over the city

The county court

The beautiful countryside

 Kwa heri,

Frauke

Kakamega-Nairobi-Nakuru-Kakamega

 Hey friends,

Railway of Nairobi

last week I went to Nairobi to pick up Sebastian from Jomo Kenyatta Airport. We spent some days to explore the city a little more. Besides the Uhuru Park, we saw the parliament, different colonial style buildings and the railway station.

Uhuru Park

Crowded junction

After some days in the busy city, we headed back to Kakamega and stopped in Nakuru. It is the fourth biggest city of Kenya and the capital of Rift Valley Region with 200.000 inhabitants. There, we met Vera, Susi and Markus. Together we went to see the Menengai Crater, which is 2490 metres high and its caliber adds up to impressive 12 kilometres! The view was beautiful and the wind was howling. One could imagine the dramatic battle between the two Masai clans Il Purko and Il Laikipiak, where hundreds of Il Laikipiak warriors were chased over the cliff and died. This incident created the name of the crater, because Menengai means place of corpses.

All of us at Menengai

Me at Menengai Crater

Cliff of the Crater

It took us 5 more hours by bus, to come back to Kakamega. But today we enjoyed the sun and now we are going back to work!

Cheers,
Frauke