We're baaack`

Our flight touched down at Dulles airport in Virginia at about 2 p.m. East Coast time. We're glad to be home after about 24 straight hours of travel.

Here are updates from our final days in Kenya. More student reflections will follow in the coming weeks (parents of travelers, we will call upon you in the coming months to help make sure that students take some time to reflect and process the trip in writing).

On our final day in Kenya, Sunday, we went to the Ya Ya Market for some "late" morning shopping (we left Rosa Mystica at 9 a.m. -- our latest start EVER). When we got back we packed a bit more and then headed to Prestige Plaza for a quick lunch. After lunch, we visited the offices of Carolina For Kibera, located (not surprisingly) in Kibera, between Olympic Primary School (Ken's old primary school, which we visited on Thursday) and Red Rose.

Describe CFK here. We learned mainly about a program that empowers young women in Kibera, called Binti Pamoja. We saw the newly opened Tabitha Clinic (new as of February of this year) as well. The contrast between the sewage/garbage outside the clinic and our vision of an American hospital/clinic was quite jarring.

After our visit there, we headed back to pack and then walked to the Junction Mall for a final dinner there before loading up the bus and heading to the airport.

Also, filling in some details from earlier in the trip -- on Thursday afternoon, after visiting Olympic Primary School, we went back to Kibra Academy where there was an opening ceremony of the new computer lab, funded by the Children of Kibera Fonudation (CoKF). We'll get some pictures of that event up on the blog as well.

[Five CoKF interns who have graduated from college -- three from the United States and two from Kenya -- have already put the lab to good use, setting up the computers and training students and teachers alike. One day, the lab was in use for nine straight hours.]

Many many many pictures will be uploaded soon - look here for links to galleries.