another lunch with Karl and Kathy's friends. they are inviting people over so i can build a network of friends. guess they are really keen to make this work for me so i stay.
the lady i met today, Shanni, runs two trusts here in Kenya where she is educating people on family planning (FP) and HIV. her main focus and passion is FP. these mazungus (white people) here are so into helping and making a difference its awesome. today was another light bulb experience. Karl puts in so much work with hidden cameras filming illegal wildlife trade and bushmeat, in many areas where it is know to about by the very goverment that makes it illegal. he puts so much energy and effor in trying to educate everyone about this and get it in front of the higher powered decision makers to try and stop it. but what i learnt today was the root cause of it all is over-population.
Poverty and hunger (and greed) is driving the destruction of our forests and pushing our wildlife to extinction. everyone tells me how 20 years ago you could not drive between Mt Kenya and Nairobi without running into the wildife you see on the documentaries. now, there is absolutely nothing. the only wildlife left are in reserves and they are all dwindling. poachers are not stopping since the gap between the poor and middle class is widening.
one very significant solution is in Family Planning (FP). the world is about to hit 7billion, a hell of a lot quicker than the experts predicted. Kenya has 44 million and at the current growth rate will exceed over 100 billion by 2050. there is not enough food to feed the current 44 billion.
the lady i met today sends out 1 goup on camels every month to regions of Kenya to educated them on family planning and provide 5 year birth control for those who want it. she has seen the acceptance, both by the women and men and demand for the birth control grow immensly. they all know they can't feed the kids they have and need to stop having kids and they are focussing on the 5 year birth control for girls still in school. the stories are horrendous and depressing, but these people are truely amazing.
you all know i've been on this type of bandwagon for decades, and probably sick of me pushing it. its taken 53 years to work up the guts to get here, but i could never go back. once u see what is going on first hand and that there is never enough people, volunteers, money, resources, you cant pack ur bags and go back to the high paid city contracts.
all the skills i've collected over the past 30 years, all the anxiety, stress, depression, highs and lows have brought me to a place where i can develop strategies, plans and procedures to save a life, rather than better corporates bottom line
the lady i met today, Shanni, runs two trusts here in Kenya where she is educating people on family planning (FP) and HIV. her main focus and passion is FP. these mazungus (white people) here are so into helping and making a difference its awesome. today was another light bulb experience. Karl puts in so much work with hidden cameras filming illegal wildlife trade and bushmeat, in many areas where it is know to about by the very goverment that makes it illegal. he puts so much energy and effor in trying to educate everyone about this and get it in front of the higher powered decision makers to try and stop it. but what i learnt today was the root cause of it all is over-population.
Poverty and hunger (and greed) is driving the destruction of our forests and pushing our wildlife to extinction. everyone tells me how 20 years ago you could not drive between Mt Kenya and Nairobi without running into the wildife you see on the documentaries. now, there is absolutely nothing. the only wildlife left are in reserves and they are all dwindling. poachers are not stopping since the gap between the poor and middle class is widening.
one very significant solution is in Family Planning (FP). the world is about to hit 7billion, a hell of a lot quicker than the experts predicted. Kenya has 44 million and at the current growth rate will exceed over 100 billion by 2050. there is not enough food to feed the current 44 billion.
the lady i met today sends out 1 goup on camels every month to regions of Kenya to educated them on family planning and provide 5 year birth control for those who want it. she has seen the acceptance, both by the women and men and demand for the birth control grow immensly. they all know they can't feed the kids they have and need to stop having kids and they are focussing on the 5 year birth control for girls still in school. the stories are horrendous and depressing, but these people are truely amazing.
you all know i've been on this type of bandwagon for decades, and probably sick of me pushing it. its taken 53 years to work up the guts to get here, but i could never go back. once u see what is going on first hand and that there is never enough people, volunteers, money, resources, you cant pack ur bags and go back to the high paid city contracts.
all the skills i've collected over the past 30 years, all the anxiety, stress, depression, highs and lows have brought me to a place where i can develop strategies, plans and procedures to save a life, rather than better corporates bottom line
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