Not sure why I’ve chosen to post this today. I am troubled, deeply, by the billions of people worldwide who will go to bed tonight hungry, fearful for their safety, or sick from disease. These days, it’s not worth mentioning the statistics concerning how many people live on less than $2/day. I even hesitate to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘the 1010 project’
Poorism
January 4th, 2010
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Ode Magazine, which I once subscribed to, ran a story this past April called “Slum tours: Traveling off the beaten path” detailing the rise of what some have dubbed “poorism”, or traipsing through the slums of this planet for an alternative travel experience. Coming from Ode, I figured that this would be a hit piece [...]
Kenya Series – The Myth of Western Superiority
July 15th, 2009
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I’ve been with The 1010 Project for a little over a year. At the same time, I was working my way through graduate school at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. At the office, I learned about humanitarian work by doing, and through discussions with those who had been [...]
Kenya Series – Water
July 15th, 2009
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Water is life. I’ve known this for some time. I’ve also been nursing a water addiction for about a decade. I love the stuff like a fish loves…water. I need it, I crave it at almost all times, and I drink many, many liters each day. I knew that traveling in Kenya would be difficult [...]
The Denver Dispatch of Doom – Vol. 11 (Kenya Edition)
July 13th, 2009
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Hello all, I hope this letter finds you healthy and happy. I’ve eaten a great deal of celery in the past week, a fact for which I have no explanation. I am back from Africa! In my work with The 1010 Project, I’ve spent a lot of time telling the stories of social entrepreneurs and [...]
Community Market Proposal
July 13th, 2009
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I’m working with Matt, one of our interns who is still on the ground in Kenya, to put the finishing touches on a proposal. We’re planning to work with one of our community-based organizations in the Kayole suburb of Nairobi to arrange a permanent space in a market. The basic idea is to give the [...]
Kenya Series – Mt. Longonot
July 6th, 2009
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A fantastic slide show, complete with funny captions, follows this post. Our team from The 1010 Project spent a few days visiting with a partner in Western Province, then headed to Lake Naivasha in the Central Highlands of Kenya. Naivasha is big and beautiful – it’s in the bottom of the Great Rift Valley – [...]
