Culture Kit
Kenya #2 (Carolina Navigators)
ID # 3814
This kit includes many clothing items and accessories such as beaded sandals, a soccer jersey, leso cloth, skirts, beaded Masai necklace, beaded bracelet, a pink purse, a placemat purse, bone bracelet, assorted beads, and a white and yellow hat. It also has a Masai blanket, tea strainer, coffee packets, “If you were me and lived in Kenya” book, “Spotlight on Kenya” book, newspapers, pictures, Safaricom credit tab, beaded keychain, HIV/AIDS beaded pin, giraffe mask, small elephant statue, money, and flag
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Molly Smith & Erin Walker
Molly is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying in the Exercise and Sport Science department. She was in Kenya for two months as a fellow with Carolina for Kibera (CFK), an organization that exists to develop local leaders, catalyze positive change, and alleviate poverty in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. CFK has many departments, including health, sports, entrepreneurship, and girls empowerment. Molly worked with the health and sports programs to develop a new fitness initiative and conduct first aid trainings.
My name is Erin Walker and I am a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I plan to graduate in the year 2013 and am minoring in English and majoring in psychology with a focus on child development. In the summer on 2010, I went on an internship to Kenya for two months. This internship was through the Amani Children’s Foundation which is a 501c3 non-profit organization that partners with New Life Home Trust in Kenya to help care for abandoned, homeless, and HIV-positive babies. Since 1993, New Life Homes has rescued over 1,200 infants who are provided with food and clean water in the New Life Homes throughout Kenya.
Amani’s main goal for this internship was to utilize university students to help make adoption processes more efficient, safe, and accessible in Kenya. For each home, the interns consulted with social workers, staff, and directors to take pictures and write narrative reports on each child for their adoption dossiers. We also scanned in all of the adoption files into a computer database so that there would be another copy in case something happened to the hard copy and also easier access to the files for the staff. The use of electronic files will help increase the processing rate for adoptions, increase the number of children who are adopted and help place the children in loving families. Also upon return, each intern was committed to raising $1,000 for one child at a New Life Home. This provides the approximate cost of the care and food for an infant’s first year of life, which is the average length of time to adoption. I like this aspect of the internship because it demonstrates that I can still make a difference in the lives of these children even while I am not in Kenya.
I really enjoyed my time in Kenya and learned a lot about the adoption process and also the country. We became close friends with the directors of the New Life Homes and they were able to show us more of their country from an insider’s perspective so we really got a feel for the culture. I am thankful for the opportunity for me to do something like this and I am definitely going back to Kenya in the future, it is just a matter of when. I also want to thank Tara Muller and the rest of the Global Initiatives team for allowing me to make two “Culture Kits” while I was in Kenya.
Asante Sana!