Sept 2007

   Because habits are hard to kick, and because all of you are important to
me and I want to stay connected to you, I'll once again be sending out
e-mails from Kenya. I'm in Nairobi now and heading to Mombasa shortly. I
will be in Mombasa for the next two and a half months working on the
research project I began while abroad in the spring of '06 and trying to
make more viable the scholarship program my father and I have been
working on for the past year. For those of you that have not heard, we
are sponsoring school fees for 13 students this year and have raised
enough money to double that number for the term beginning in January.
The students we are sponsoring are the children of street vendors with
whom I worked while in Likoni. I hope to reconnect with many of them to
learn how they have faired since we last spoke, particularly, how they
have been effected by the state sponsored marketplace constructed in
their area in order to gain a sense of the effects of the state's
development policies on street vendors. I also hope to discuss with them
the scholarship program and its future potential. I'll keep all of you
posted as I learn more. Thanks for reading. And please, write back with
thoughts, questions, and suggestions of things I should be thinking
about.
With love,
-Gabi