Stop the Pity: Call Me Hope
Directed by Joe Sabia and Bryce Yukio Adolphson Shot and Edited by Bryce Yukio Adolphson Produced by Nyla Rodgers Post-Production Sound Mix by Matt McCorkle 130 Participants! 72 Locations! 2 Continents! 2 minutes and 15 seconds long! This is the second video in Mama Hope’s Stop the Pity Unlock the Potential Campaign which began with Alex Presents: Commando. With this piece [...]
Mama Hope: The First 2 Weeks
New Mama Hope photo post! Images from the first two weeks in Kenya. Kenyam partner communities include: Maai Mahiu, Isiolo, Kambi Garba, Arimet and Kisumu. Total time in Matatu buses: 23 hours. Check out the full post at the Mama Hope blog!
Mama Hope: Tie and Dye
It took about 3 seconds to register that “tie and dye” meant “tie-dye”. The rest was chaos. I spent this last 4th of July with the Mama Hope team and some of my African mama’s in Isiolo, Kenya. Check out the Mama Hope blog for the full scoop!
I want to know what’s being assumed…
Passed this sign on the way to Our Lady during a measles vaccination campaign in Isiolo. I don’t quite understand the name, but they’re doing good work with the community.
Kitchen Kids
Somehow I ended up obligated to cook for 15 people by myself. …so there I was not quite sure how to go about this. Not that I didn’t know proportions or what to fix, but rather I didn’t know how to get this finished before 11pm. The sun had set and a small kerosene lamp [...]
Bits, Pieces, and Soda
I needed some airtime and wanted a soda. As I was walking out of the pepo compound I ran into Peter. He’s a 14 year old I’ve know since I first came here in 2007. For reasons not remembered, we decide that’s he’s stolen my potatoes and we race into town as if he’s a [...]
Stigma and Discrimination
These are two of my favorite art pieces by Wind of Hope founder Khadija O Rama. She painted them in the mid-nineties. I’m amazed they’re still around.
Habari mbuzi? or How is the goat?
I was walking by the Early Childhood Development classes one day when I got ushered in. Mercy, the vastly overworked teacher, made a plead for help while she took care of her 30 other responsibilities. So there I was in front of the class trying to think of something to say in Swahili. Not surprisingly, [...]
Albina and the ECD Collage
I got all warm and fuzzy when I saw this. I gave a handful of prints to Albina, the former Early Childhood Development teacher, last year. Anyone else would have just taken them home and put them in an album. When I mentioned it to her she simply said, “The kids love so much to [...]
Keeping Clean
The importance of washing with soap is repeated over and over again in advisory posters from the Ministry of Health. We have about 4 of them in the Mama Tumaini Health Clinic. Prevent Cholera. Finish Sickness. Wise advice. A few weeks back I stepped out of the hellpot and into the morning air. The sun [...]
The Football Tourist
So there is a big dirt field where the kids play football here at Jangwani (slang for Wind of Hope in the Arid). It’s surrounded by ball deflating thorns and gives anyone with half a lung an asthma attack. Last Tuesday, we organized a game with the “good ball.” The boys all dawned their bright [...]
Mzee Mwambia
You might have seen this video in my recent Mama Hope post. It’s by two of my Trainers of Trainers students (more on that later) , Salim Yassen and James Sunday. They went out a few weeks ago on a Ramadan food distribution and took this video of their own accord. I hope you enjoy [...]
Lunch
It’s sometimes quite necessary to sneak in a quick meal during Ramadan. I say sneak, because in respect to the fast, I’d just assume not have a giant meal in front of everyone. Anyway… on the menu for today: 1- Avocado 1- Bannana 1- Nandazi Peptang Chili Sauce Nuteez Natural Peanut Butter Spread Kensalt Ionized [...]
Cows
Went driving through town with Rogeb the other day. He’s a rather tall and imposing middle aged man. I was told he recently head-butted two police officers to get out of paying them a bribe. He also has 30 to 40 baby ducks over running his backyard and living room. We bumped and tumbled down [...]