The go abroad fund helped me to go to Kenya to work teaching computer skills and English literature to students at a girls training college. It was a little nerve-wracking to go by myself, but I have a wonderful time at the school getting to know the students and immersing myself in the day to day life. At the end of the trip I spent some time working on a solar desalination project run by the University of Edinburgh and Strathmore University in Nairobi in Lodwar.

Aerial View of Nairobi

Kimlea Girls Technical Training Centre – The school that I was working at

Nursery school children playing hairdresser

A sketch of the local town ‘Banana Hill”

A view of the Rift Valley

A Leopard in Maasai Mara game reserve

With the other volunteer teacher from the school

My classroom

A class selfie

The Mombasa coastline

The Maasai Market in Nairobi

The school chapel

Me with the school boarders

The KEFRI institute in Lodwar

A sketch of the Karen Blixen museum