[HRAP KENYA] BACK TO BROOKLYN
This is officially my second time blogging whoop! whoop! GO ME. So I'm just giving the world an update on how I'm doing and letting everyone know some of the things I learned and that I miss my K.K.G.C.L.N.O.T family. The trip to Kenya was extremely emotional and was definitely life changing we bonded with so many people and learned so many things from them.
Like when we went the Kikuyu homestead with the Green Belt Movement we learned how everything they do is in one way or another done to help make life easier. For example the when they plant trees in strategic places to provide shade while working and when they need to make a fire or build a home they chop branches off and feed the leaves to the animals and the animals poop it out and they use it as fertilizer for the next generation of trees for fire wood or houses or shade for farmers like Njoroge (shout out). Like O'tilla said plant a tree save a life. We also learned how resilient people are and no matter how bad someones life may seem to you its much better to learn from them than to feel sad for them. I think on our trip their were so many good examples of this; like the kids from Kibera Glory Secondary School. Kibera is a slum in Nairobi where people live in shacks and walk on waist because the government has almost forgotten about these neighborhoods. Despite living in dangerous surroundings and not having access to the best education the students we met are brilliant. We held two workshops one lead by Kojo and Lindsay and the other was access to education lead by O'tillia, Nurys, and myself both work shops were good but ours was better lol. I honestly think that spending so much time with all the students I learned more from them than they learned from us. During our stay in Kenya we met so many great people and partnered with a bunch of wonderful organizations. Shout out to Kevin for making this trip so amazing, shout out to Cathrine for coming early and preparing things for us and shout out to Tabitha for coming and filming the trip so the world can really see how much the trip impacted us all. Shout out to the whole team for staying open and allowing us to become the family that we did. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!! ......from Gabriel
