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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

KENYA | Friday, 4 January 2013 | Views [248] | View Larger Image

This picture was taken in KCC slum. It is a slum that has a lot of history, and unfortunately in January of 2012, had a fire that burned through most of the slum, leaving many homeless. We went there to visit the people who still lived there, and to see how they are rebuilding and what we would be able to do to help. I named this picture "the little adventurer". When i look at this picture, knowing what happened to the slum, it reminds me that there is always a new beginning. The child in this picture looks like an old women walking with a walking stick.

This picture is at an orphanage that I volunteered at during my stay. The most interesting thing about that orphanage was that, even though i was the volunteer who was supposed to be helping, the kids did all of the work. There was 42 kids in a two bed room house with more laundry to do then i could imagine, with no washing machine and water at only limited points in the day. These were the four elder boys who did work without asking questions, and had so much fun doing it. A far reach from the children I see daily in Canada.

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This picture is also at the garbage slum. This picture is of a boy who is on top of a heap of garbage, trying to collect things. The males in the slum were a lot more apposed to having their pictures taken because they did more of the climbing in garbage and searching through everything work. It is powerful to think that a boy has to spend his day looking through trash trying to help his family survive, and seeing it was one of the hardest things i had to do on my trip.

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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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