Connected

Over the past week or so, I've been doing some research on the Gioto Garbage Slums, the sole intention of this research was just to be more informed of the realities I will face once I arrive in Nakuru. But instead of gathering a stash of cold hard facts, I found myself invited into a group of warm hearted like minded people in a network on Facebook called the Nakuru Volunteer Network.

......... Rewind three months ago, my boss asked me directly "why are you doing this" and I started to give him my "When I was 16, Band Aid, Bob Geldof" spiel and he stopped me in my tracks and said, "NO! why are YOU doing this...." and the only answer I could give was that I just had to.  But that scared me, how come I couldn't give a definitive answer to why I needed to do this.  For years now, I have watched every documentary that comes on TV, read every magazine article I saw, about people going and fulfilling this burning need inside them to help others... and every time I watched or read of these people I knew I too wanted to be part of it, and when asked that was the only answer I could give.

Though I didn't have specifics, what I always knew, was, wherever I went, whatever I ended up doing, the driving force was the welfare of children, and education.  Once I made the decision to get off my butt and make this happen, to give my time to So They Can the why's?? started to answer themselves.  I wanted to help improve the lives of woman and children, who simply through birth and no fault of their own, had been dealt a hand far more difficult than I had.  By choosing So They Can (STC) suddenly a town, 160km North West of Nairobi, a town I had never heard of became my focus,