Dear Listers

We had an incredibly successful digital village trip.

We visited a pasha in mbumbuni.

We visited five other digital villages in athi river, machakos, masii, and wote town.

MOST IMPORTANTLY--

We brought 10 packets of Uji, 14 bags of Ugali flour, 9 containers of oil, and one container of beans to Wote Town. The counselor, Joseph Musau and the chief of wote took us to three very needy families. One family, the father was in a wheelchair. In another family, the grandmother was blind in one eye, there were eight children (including a newborn) and no father, and the family had not eaten in two days. The newborn was named Neema.

We were able to bring enough food to feed these three families for nearly a week each. We presented the food directly to the families.

There is not a problem with food production in Kenya. There is a problem with distribution. There is not a problem of good will in Kenya. There is a problem of political leadership.

Back to ICTs, we are really hoping that others in the Kictanet community will take up the guantlet, and help us finish our national audit of digital villages and pashas.

Regards, Rigia

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:45 PM, warigia bowman <warigia@aucegypt.edu> wrote:

Dear Listers

We are meeting tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. to go to Machakos. We have two cars and both are full.

Patrick Mule
Warigia Bowman
Victor Gathara
Andrew Gakiria

Paul Mucheme
Paul Muchiri
Muchiri Nyaggah
Martin Gathaka

We will try to look at some of the following.

Pashas
Mbumbuni central bookshop, machakos, mbooni, mbumbuni

Tier 1 Safaricom
Arch communications, mwingi constituency, mwingi town
Britech technologies, makueni constituency, makueni cont. wote town center

Tier 2 Safaricom
markpoint communications, machakos town, machakos
mue agencies, wote town, makueni
tricom technology, mombasa road kitui, kitui central
web communications, mwanzia bld kitui, kitui west

Cheers, Rigia