Reflections on Nairobi

I would like to share with you you some of the things I wrote in my journal about our first assessment in Nairobi.

The assessments were both easier and more difficult than I thought they would be. What amazed me the most about the answers is the amount of people everyone knew who died from or are living with HIV/AIDS. One deaconess I spoke with was raising 5 children who were orphaned because their parents died of AIDS. (This is commonly found in Kenya. The people we spoke with who are living with HIV/AIDS seemed to have avery different opinion about the disease and the way thery are treated, compared to the other people we interviewed. The was a large gap between how people believed we should treate those living with HIV, and how they are actually treated.

Pictured: A plant outside of the hotel in Nairobi. The name of it is flaming birds.