Shianda

Shianda

meeting the first low income people on my journey in a small rural village
Shianda - meeting the first low income people on my journey in a small rural village

Location: 

Shianda, Kenya

Duration: 

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Journey: 

Republic of Kenya

Personal highlights

  1. Shianda: one of the most rural places I have visited in my first week!
  2. Chama: my first visit to a local savings group, people hold together
  3. People: everybody learns and speaks good english, even pre school kids!
  4. Rural life: everybody has a small business with sporadic work or peasant
  5. Hotel: even the smallest township has a hotel (didn't look inside though)

Image sources

  1. School class room
  2. Local carpenter at work
  3. Meet and greet at the Hotel
  4. Herding the cows (6 animals)
  5. Watching good after the cows

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