Report from training in Taveta, Kenya

So far I am in training and there is no internet. I forward these messages to Billy to post. My training is in Taveta south of Lotokitok doing business visits for HIV projects, a farm, water purification plant, fish ponds,

I am in classes all day, how to market products better, culture, health, 4 hours daily of language...packed. 4 more weeks of training to go.

I have classes all day, I may get to Mombasa where I can write a narrative but hard to do from phone.

This is a fascinating time to be in Africa with Lybia, Egypt, Ruwanda, ect

Some people were worried because of reports about the humanitarian crisis is Dadaab Kenya. I am not near the 10 million Somalis on eastern border, and the unrestful Turkana tribes in NW. Below is an insert about Taveta….

Feeling stronger everyday...

More soon
XO’D

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taveta is a town in the Taveta District of Coast Province in Kenya. The town has an urban population of 11,500 (1999 census ).
Overview
The town of Taveta is wedged into a projection of Kenyan territory bordered on the north and west by Tanzania. The irregularity in the border was created c. 1881 when Queen Victoria gave Mount Kilimanjaro away as a wedding present to her grandson, then Crown Prince of Prussia and later Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Subsequently, the border was adjusted so that Kilimanjaro would fall within the boundaries of the German colony of Tanganyika instead of the British protectorate of Kenya.
Taveta thrives as a point of commerce between Kenya and Tanzania, with a twice-weekly outdoor market especially large for a town of its size. The market is fueled in part by Taveta's distinctive rail connection through Voi with the Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala line, built by the British during the era of the Kenya protectorate and celebrated in the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. Large numbers of people walk across the border from socialist Tanzania to buy and sell wares in Taveta; smuggled goods such as Tanzanian rubies and coffee are occasionally available there.

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Here is a link that will gives you good general information and maps about Kenya;
http://www.kenya-advisor.com/kenya-map.html

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