Rejse til Nairobi Academy, Kenya, med Globale partnerskaber

Foto: LT og MF
  • Our contact at Nairobi Academy, Mr. George Jamba, and his son Victor, 4.
  • George's vife Monica preparing dinner in their kitchen
  • Monica
  • George is a bishop in his sparetime. He receives a visit from three other priests that run an orphanage center in a slum area.
  • Monica cooks vegetables.
  • Ugali, a kind of stiffened porrige that is eaten as a sidedish just like potatoes
  • Collections for the orphanage
  • On a one-day safary in Nairobi National park - the only national park so close to a city that is NOT fenced in. This is an impala.
  • Impalas below a tree on the savannah.
  • Grazing impalas
  • Buffalos crossing the road (In Kenya regarded as the most dangerous animal to human beings - even more than lions).
  • A rhino crossing the road - a very lucky day for us!
  • Birds on a giraf's neck.
  • A giraf with Nairobi in the background.
  • A beautiful lake
  • Crocodiles.
  • Vulture in tree top.
  • Salaash, our Masaai guide. A genuine expert in nature, especially in birds. He could stop, tell us to look and nobody but he could see the bird, insect or footprint, he was pointing at. Impressive!
  • George teaches business and economy. Here he talks about market research.
  • The boarding fascilities. Here the toilets.
  • A typical boarding room (two students of the same gender sleeping in one room).
  • One of the small boarding houses consisiting of 2-3 bedrooms, toilets and shower and in some houses also a plae to study.
  • The girls' study room in one of the boarding houses
  • A girls' room.
  • The boarding staff's flat. Also used by the students in the evening so not much private life.
  • Small gardens for the boarding houses with pavillions for shade.
  • The arts class fascilities.
  • Workout fascilities.
  • Squash fascilities.
  • A P.E. dressing room for boys.
  • Teachers in the patio. From the left: Christina (American), Mrs. Robeiro (Headmistress, originally from India) and Mrs. Schwann (Germany).
  • George is having the obligatory afternoon tea (chai)in the staff patio.
  • Teachers at Nairobi Academy during a break.
  • 10. grade students (equals 1.g. in DK).
  • A ten-grader.
  • Debate assembly. A competition on argumentation and rhetoric.
  • Mr. Jamba's "home office".
  • Children playing football in the slums of Mathare.
  • Sheds in the outskirts of Mathare, one of the worst slum areas in Nairobi. However not the biggest one which is Kibera.
  • Children looking at us.
  • Orphans welcoming us to the church and the slums of Mathare.
  • The children are impatiently waiting for the collections of clothes, shoes, balls and teddy bears collected by staff and students at Grenaa Gymnasium.
  • The priests welcoming us with songs and prayer.
  • George is the bishop.
  • Alter ceremony.
  • The children have never tasted wine before.
  • Girls from the slum school welcoming us with songs on their burden to bear in life.
  • Notice how little they smile.
  • Picture of girls and priests.
  • Now it is time for my speech to the children.
  • Candy for the school girls.
  • Candy and crayons for the orphans.
  • Another prayer and gospel songs.
  • The preasts who run the orphanage. There is no building yet but at least a meal a day for the children.
  • I'm trying to teach the preasts how to use a frisbee.
  • The shanties.
  • Tons of garbage and really poor living conditions.
  • Men brewing alcohol. We were chased away with stones by them because they thought I was a journalist.
  • A devastating view!
  • Borrowing a toilet in a slum house.
  • More slum - however these people are much better off. At least they have a room of 8m2 per family (with no toilet fascilities). The families are big in Nairobi. Most families have more than four children.
  • I'm teaching the ten-graders about Denmark.
  • We even had a discussion of the Mohammed drawings.
  • The pupils wear school uniforms.
  • A geography class which we attented.
  • The teachers' desks. Each teacher has a private place to put his/her computer etc. However no place to load the battery.
  • More desks. Rhoda, the English teacher, who took very good care of me during my stay.
  • George and I in the staff room.
  • Overview of the school.
  • Overview the other way.
  • In front of the computer room with Christina, Rhoda and Lucy.
  • The lawn. Always well-kept.
  • Dining fascilities.
  • Everybody, staff and students, have lunch together.
  • The students' section.
  • Teachers' section.
  • Computer room (they have 2).
  • Goerge and I in front of the staff room.
  • Debate- and assembly hall.
  • This is where I showed 1.ak's project to the Kenyan students.
  • Sports fascilities.
  • The entrance to the big assembly hall and dining hall.
  • The Flag is cherished.
  • 1.ak's project on Kenya was received extremely well. The Kenyan ten-graders will now do a similar project and send to us.
  • I'm picking up George's son and taking him home from school by school bus and Matatu (public bus) since George is working late.
  • George's neighbourhood.
  • A road near George's house.
  • The house in which George lives with his family (wife, child, 2 adopted relatives whose parents have passed away), and a maid. Everybody in a two-bedroom flat.
  • The chop just next to George's house.
  • Children in Preparatory school at Nairobi Academy.
  • The children from Pre-preparatory school getting ready for their weekly assembly.
  • Preparatory pupils walking towards the assembly hall.
  • Today's assembly was on how to protect the environment. The teacher shows how to make rope and baskets out of plastic bags.
  • Big bug!
  • Preparing for 1.ak's oral mock exam. Very surreal doing that in Nairobi!
  • The staff patio.
  • Staff "kitchen".
  • English teacher Rhoda in from of staff computer.
  • Arts teacher below teachers' information board.
  • Blue flag means no walking on the lawn.
  • The reception.
  • The first aid center.
  • The Head Secretary. Headmaster's office is to the right.
  • Main entrance to school.
  • The school's swimming pool.
  • A mathmatics teachers' conference in the library. The same problems all over the world: How to make students bring their calculators and understand the "code" of language etc. I felt very much at home.
  • A very nice library with good working areas.
  • Library reception.
  • Not yet quite computerized!
  • Beautiful hallways.
  • The assembly hall and library building.
  • 10-graders studying history.
  • Monica (George's wife) teaches me to cook Kenyan dishes, here Ugali.
  • Vincent, George's adopted son, does his daily duties: cleaning up, doing the dishes and washing clothes, before he goes to bed.
  • A visit to Bomas (village houses) of Kenya. Here traditional dance.
  • Traditional South African dance
  • Polygamy is still very common in Kenya.
  • An identical copy of a Luo tribal village (George is a Luo).
  • More Luo houses that are almost identical with the houses of his home village.
  • Monica and George in front of the Luo houses.
  • School girls want me to take their photo.
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