After our long flight from Toronto to Nairobi via Amsterdam, the team was up early to plan for our meeting with the Overseas Volunteers at noon. Before attending the meeting we visited the site where the U.S. Embassy had been bombed on August 7, 1998, killing 218 people and causing the relocation of the U.S. Embassy out of the downtown area. This was a moving experience for each of us, so familiar with 9/11 and brought home the need for international understanding and cooperation fostered by so many organizations such as SCAW.
The meeting with the Overseas Volunteers, the Rotary Club of Nairobi, was valuable in renewing the close relationship between SCAW and the Rotarians, a necessary partnership for the successful completion of a bed kit distribution. It was quite evident that countless hours had been spent by these volunteers in finding sites and deserving children, trying to improve the quality and quantity of contents of bedkits and making the Canadian team feel welcome.
We left the meeting with enthusiasm for the future days of meeting with the children.
Alan Ingram
for Team Kenya
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