News from Kenya

It’s more than two months since we have started our new project „ Sega community empowering through IT trainings and ecodevelopment" soon we will reach a halfway point (the project is scheduled for 6 months).

During that time we partially realized the introductory stage: adaptation of rooms dedicated to serve as computer laboratories. Our actions covered: installation of ceiling boards, installation of burglar proofed doors and windows, rooms painting, installation of electrical wiring and preparation of furniture: tables and boards. All works are being effected by local community – mostly parents or pupils (like in Sega Polytechnic).

At present our staff in Sega consist of two wonderful volunteers Kasia Wnuk and Kasia Tadla. Both are in charge of trainings in Sega schools concerning computer literacy and packages. The classes aim at introducing local community into the virtual reality. Our staff representative Aleksandra Gutowska – Project coordinator is now closing her stay in Sega and returns to Poland with a deep sorrow. For more than two months Aleksandra worked hard in order to develop the project in a right direction.

For the next month she will be replaced by Maja Krzyżanowska who has just arrived to Sega with our next volunteer: Ania Janczur. Kenyans - Jose Njuki-Imwe Njunjiri (our co-worker) and Yvonne Ong'ira help us in the implementation of the project.

We are very glad that Sega became a place more and more visited by our polish friends. This year we hosted students of African Language and Cultrure Department: Marta Miłkowska, Cyprian Kozera and Błażej Popławski. We were also visited by Kasia Szeniawska and her mother Agata Tomaszewska. They all help us eagerly and support our actions – we appreciate and thank you for that.

Those numerous visits inspired us to organize European day in Sega. Participation and support from our friends: Gustavo Enrique Olivella Cuesta from Spain and Francesca Scarlatti from Italy, made that day more diverse and more interesting. We could share with the local community information about our culture and customs. People from Sega had a unique possibility to taste our cuisine specialties and learn expressions from different languages (Polish, Spanish and Italian).