Hi all,
How are you? I'm fine, working as usual.
I haven't talked about my work for a long time, so let me do it today.
Garbage collection, which is our main activity and the source of revenue, is conducted as usual on Mondays. That is also when I have so many clothes to wash at home.
As from this Monday, we have begun putting on gloves on collection. It is my idea! Before it was adopted one member had cut his finger deeply with a piece of glass inside a garbage bag, so we decided to buy.
School club, where we teach children about their rights and HIV/AIDS, is beginning tomorrow.
Bakery was forced to be closed temporalily, because the price of wheat is soaring and we are in deficit.
The community resource center is doing well. We mainly offer photocopying and computer classes, and making about 200Ksh(3 dollars) per day. We don't have enough members in our library, which I think is due to our membership fee, but once we advertise earnestly( we cannot, until we get the license of running business from the city council), we will do much better.
Now for the plan of opening a cyber, or Internet space. I visited more than 5 companies, sometimes alone, including telekom, internet service provider, cell phone company in Nairobi. Two of them are promising at present, but it has turned out we do not have enough fund to install the equipment. The budget accepted by the Ministry of Agriculture this June does not include this project, and our daily activities are done in a tight budget. We are soliciting money from several organizations at present, but no hope of getting fund before I leave.
However, it seems I can connect at least one computer to the internet if I use some of my money. Having one connected computer will save a lot of time and trouble to go to the town, and moreover, make it easier for us to solicit money from companies by sending documents on e-mail, or exchange information with others.
Now I'm trying to set up a simple homepage of our organization. Wish me a good luck!
See you,
Kei
2 comments:
Hi! what's up? Im so happy you're doing very well and sad to hear that your(and also our) bakery was closed again.... Since it is a matter of business, it must be hard for you guys to succeed in it. but MUYOG must observe and identify some main reasons of this failure. Say hello to all of whom I met in Kenya! Have fun your rest of the life there!
Hiroaki Inomata
Hi hiro!
MUYOG members often mention you, so I feel you so close here.
Though MUYOG faces various difficulties, we are making steady progress. Sospeter is practically working 24/365! I took a picture of Joseph's son, so you'll see it sometime.
Are you in U.S. now by the way?
Anyway enjoy your life, too!
Kei
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