It’s been a eventful few days… we went to the UN for a few presentations which were really hard to concentrate through due to the lack of sleep and constant traveling for the last week or so.

The only thing that has imprinted itself in my mind from the visit was that the UN has condom dispensers in every washroom including the women’s. Oh and the statement, “The UN is neutral… but let’s use ______ as an example of _________”

It’s pretty funny as no one is ever really “neutral”, even if you refrain from politics you are rarely ever neutral… we will always have an opinion, those who don’t either don’t want to think about or haven’t taken the time… everyone has an opinion, even those it’s naive and uneducated. Humans are rarely without an opinion.

Then we were on the Canadian Embassy… the speakers seemed very committed and passionate about the work that they were trying to accomplish alongside the Kenyan people.

The next day we took a small plane from Nairobi to Kisumu – I’m sure I’m not the only who was thankful to avoid the pot hole roads.

In Kisumu we went to the community placement centre, St.Rita’s and then the orphanage. There are a lot of orphans in Kenya due to AIDS. Not all children are infected with AIDS but if the parent has died from AIDS the children become “contaminated” or at least that’s how they are viewed leaving many children homeless.