About
I started this trip on 17th December 2009 with a clear vision that I want to volunteer in Kenya for a couple of months and then go home and get a job and live my life somehow. After two years I’m still here, working as a programmes director at Map Kibera Trust having a leading role in projects like Map Kibera, Map Mathare, Map Mukuru, etc. In the meantime I’ve freelance mapped the Sublocation of Wongonyi in Taita Hills, mapped the polling stations on Mount Elgon for the National Democratic Institute, trained surveyors of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Swaziland on how to collect geographic data, consulted for the World Bank, and held mapping parties in Mukuru, Kwale, Diani Beach, Karura Forest, at International Livestock Research Institute, all over Nairobi, and travelled to Tanzania, Malawi, Swaziland, and all over Kenya.
I’ve never written a blog before but coming to all those places and hearing people saying:”We have googled you and you’re nowhere to be found” made me realize I need some sort of a presence on the net. The work I’m doing is in some way uniqe and I thought people might be interested to read about it or even, not to be too complacent, learn, as I’m learning every day.
Welcome.