VP2: Engejisosia

Mambo vipi (what’s up?), gang!
Dichaba, Nancy, Ryan, Chloe & Swizan here with another great week in Engejisosia. Even though we only have one week left in the kijij*, we still find ourselves experiencing so many new things. Last Sunday, Dichaba, Ryan, and Swizan attended an unusual church service in which a member of the congregation was spiritually awakened. It’s a great story, so definitely ask us about it later!
Our village football team had a special ceremony later that day to celebrate their successful season. Obviously, with Swizan on the team, how were they going to lose? Most of the community came out to celebrate, and we got to teach all of them about protecting themselves against HIV/AIDS. Informal teachings are generally a wonderful experience, but it was especially fun to teach a group that we’ve come to be such great friends with. This week, we finished the entire SIC teaching curriculum with the Engejisosia Primary School, and we only have one more lesson at the King’ori Secondary School.
Aside from a lot of teaching, this week also brought a lot of rain to the region and a baby calf to one of our homestays. Since we like to be home before dark and wanted to stay dry, this week has brought on some serious dance parties with all of our homestay kaka na dada zetu (our brothers and sisters). Even with the weather, we decided to go house to house in our village to spread awareness about our testing days. In return, we received lots of oranges, chai (...

Source: Support for International Change : HIV AIDS - August 6, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: johnson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news