MEMBERS & VISITORS YOUNG APPRENTICE INVENTORS WILL TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS When young minds are given a heads up about some of the challenges that interest them besetting their homeland , their solutions may be percolating for 10 years or more, but you can believe that they will come up with solutions. Aside from writing […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS UNEXPLORED DIMENSIONS OF KENYAN LIFE Where is the truth? People will interpret this weeks events differently concerning the removal of a top Mau Mau leader’s dreadlocks: It’s been a sad week in Kenya family! The wife Ngina Kenyatta of Kenya’s first President, Jomo Kenyatta cut off the dreadlocks of a famous […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS KENYAN MARKETPLACE I truly cannot say that I have enjoyed the experience of shopping in a typical American or western world food store. I can honestly say that I enjoy the bustle, chatter, bargaining, color, smell, and rhythm of shopping at my nearby open air market. The experience is very much […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS OUT WITH THE OLD Prof. Singer and Deputy Director Miriam Muthoni are establishing a local Invention School in Kenya and will enroll selectively and evenly chosen local boys and girls to attend as apprentice inventors. The learning regimen is described in the table below and is structured to develop five […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Yet Another Funeral WHAT FOOD HAS THE CONSISTENCY OF SNOT BUT IS SUPER DELICIOUS? My friend Jeru strolled by to offer me a pocketful of passion fruit growing here on the farm. The outer skin is pretty hard so I had to be careful cutting them with a very sharp knife. […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Celebrating Bishop Peter Karangu THE BEST GIFT OF ALL As we come to the earth we start the journey as a tiny egg fertilized by just one of billions of possibilities among the many sperm just waiting to burrow into that lonely egg drifting down mom’s fallopian tube. Perhaps the real […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS ELOSY WANJA’S GRADUATION CELEBRATION Virginia Kinyua, Elosy’s mom, worked soooo hard to make her oldest daughter’s graduation party a great success. But Virginia was not alone. It took the coordinated help of the Training Center employess, and family, and friends working together to make this one of Elosy’s most memorable days. […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY Over the decades I have come to experience a full range of life’s chapters: births, education, early family life, accomplishments, failures, work, celebrations, death, and yes MARRIAGE. I recently had the privilege and honor to attend the engagement celebration party of my very good friend Duncan Nthigah (AKA […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS FRESH WATER IS THE WORLD’S NEW GOLD Lake Nalubaale, later called Lake Victoria, is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was later named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858. The European colonialists were rabid about renaming everything they […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Young People Like This Belong In Invention School A Kenyan boy with big brilliant brain builds a homemade excavator prototype from sticks and plastic pieces. He’s already developing a natural sense of four bar linkages, mechanical advantage, material properties, force leverage, force vectors, etc. Yes, he’d make a wonderful apprentice inventor […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS “Just Get Us To The Rainbow” Lovin’ being around people who mean me good will… even those who ride 5 on a motorcycle LOL and wave back at me as they pass by. As a geographic region, if one could scoop up Kenya and plop it down in any region of […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Ancestral Rescue ~ SALT Ancestral RESCUE Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation SALT goes out of the way to tap into indigenous knowledge and traditional practices to revive harmonious relationship between people, culture and natural world. Recently met with this organization. It’s at the forefront of reestablishing bonds with the ancestral wisdom […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS MAASAI BOY’S INVENTION MADE PEACE WITH LIONS In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away. Young inventor Richard Turere […]
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