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Things We Learned At Grandsons 1. Buy them lots of fruit (from the stand one block up from the Safaricom building). 2. If you buy sweets, give them to Simon to distribute. 3. Eat lunch at the Half London Bar - the foods wonderful! 4. Don't play favourites. 5. It's okay to give them your camera or phone - you will get it back! And you'll get some great pics in return. 6. They aren't...

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So, lessons have finished after a crazy week at Grandsons, and my objective is now to organise activities for the boys! So we are handprinting this week, and playing with bats and balls, and whatever else me and Jennifer can cook up for them! On wednesday is the big election of course, so I won't be going to project then, as everyone will be voting the big constitution vote. Some of the boys got new...

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Woke up this morning to the sound of the call to prayer floating in through my window... I'm sure I would have appreciated it much more if it hadn't been half past five in the morning! The streets are lively here in Mombasa at all times - we even had a marching band come down our street the other day! It can be quite surreal sitting on the rooftop and listening to the sounds of...

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So, for those of you who don't know, Grandsons of Abraham is the project that I'm working on here in Kenya. It's a centre for street children, where the children get taken off the streets and given a place to stay where they are safe. Their basic diet is rice and beans, because that's all that they can afford and they cook them on a little stove in the back yard each morning. The house...

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Mombasa is immense. There's no other word for it. I've been here for over a week now and I'm only now getting used to the noise! The city is so busy all the time - there is no rush hour because there are always people on the roads. And the roads are chaotic. Matatus and tuk-tuks are the transport here - I get a matatu to my project every day, which costs 20 kenyan shillings...

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Well, I am sat now in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, having been told that my flight has been delayed yet again! I am now flying at nine o clock tonight and arriving tomorrow morning at seven. A whole day later! I spent the night in a very nice hotel, although leaving at 12 and finding my flight delayed another 5 hours has meant 9 hours of unadulterated boredom here in the airport! Still, I have...

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