Eustace and I departed Rekero Camp after a pleasant breakfast and a tour of the camp by Jackson. The extraordinary amount of game in the region makes Rekero a very special place. In and around this Talek River-fronted camp are hippos, crocodiles and elephants; a...
It was the sound of flapping that woke me. I assumed it was a large bird, an owl perhaps, flying up with its prey to the branches above my tent. But the noise got louder and it was close – grunting, breaking, tearing, ripping and munching sounds on all sides. ...
John Ahalei Lomurut, known as Mombasa here in Kenya, is one of The BOMA Project’s five Agents of Change students attending EARTH University in Costa Rica. In December, John will be the first Kenyan to graduate from EARTH and he represents one of our best investments...
There is a lot of death and suffering here. People die openly and everyone is more connected to the circumstances of a human life – fluids, dead bodies and sickness. In the west we lead lives of isolation that keep the symptoms of poverty removed from our daily...
It was hard to leave Korr. Despite the suffocating heat, the wind blew, the food and accommodations were great and the friends were many. Maina and Omar made numerous trips to town, trying to find anyone with some diesel that we could buy – the arduous driving...