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Most of the students are from poor backgrounds and many cannot afford school fees. A sizeable number were raised by a single parent or grandparent. Initially, the school was started as a mixed school, but the school board opted to change it to a girls school and are now in this process.

The impact of the Constituency Development Fund can be clearly seen as, without this, it would have been very difficult for the school buildings to grow beyond the basic structures.

If you or your organization would like to partner with Ruai Girls High School, pay them a visit, or give me a shout.

I am currently listening to an audio version of the book, The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns, the current president of World Vision US.

Richard Stearns book is rather relevant to us in Africa, despite being written primarily for a US audience. One poignant fact that caught my attention was the newsworthiness of a plane crash killing ~200 people, whereas over 24000 children die daily from poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes.

The audio book is a free download this month from http://www.christianaudio.com

I must say that despite having an audio copy, I still intend to get myself a hard copy version of the book. It is certainly worth reading through (and acting upon the challenges!).  Another thing is that it is not a book (so far as I have read) that you’d want to read and not want to do anything.

More as I read through but so far there’s tons of things I need to change, and act on.

90% of deaths occur in low or medium income countries yet

High income countries have 50% of registered vehicles.

http://www.nghealthcareeurope.com/media/media-news/infographics/091126-HealthEU-RoadAccidents.png

How many of Mr(s) Pea Brain have you met today, or perhaps we joined the peas for the day?

Sample this photo:

Matatu Man

Exactly where is he going?

And the law enforcers far too many times are the ones that break the rules:

One way street, but uta do what.

iHUB is a realization of this, and I’m really excited about what will be happening after the March 3 launch. It is quite an experiment, and the iHUB advisors admittedly do not have all the answers to some of the questions being posed by many. However it is worth doing, and I guess learning shall be done as it evolves.

There is loads of widespread support coming in for this, meaning that the local tech community has been yearning for such a space as this. However the iHUB is just but a small cog in the wheel that will drive Nairobi (or will it be Malili?) towards being the Silicon Valley of Africa.

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Visit & mark this in your readers –  http://www.ihub.co.ke and keep up to date with the latest on the iHUB.

There’s also a design contest on for the iHUB logo which has a $500 price tag so do not miss out on that!

Update:

I especially liked these photos as well by Paula @ Wildlife Direct.

More photos.

If the cops do it (I doubt it was an ‘emergency situation):

So can we:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who by the way invented the WWW) was the chief guest.

Among the projects were:

• pesapal done  by Liko Agosta – Verviant
• jahazi done by Mugambi – VST
• iScribe + Afrinnovator by Wilfred Mworia – African Pixel
• ushahidi by Emmanuel Kala
• sembuse by Mbugua Njihia – Symbiotic
• website.co.ke by Gichingiri – sokoletu

Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave us a brief background on how life was before the WWW. It is hard to imagine working without it in our times.

He also had some thoughts on where the web is going: web on the mobile, more web based apps using advances such as HTML5, geo-location etc.

A main concern for him and many others was how the WWW would be accessible for those living on less than a dollar. He mentioned the WWW Foundation which he had launched at the IGF in Egypt earlier in the week.

We hopefully will have more events like this next year.

Many young people and professionals are not too interested in where their food comes from, as long as they are able to buy it. Such a venture as Farmer K’s is a departure from the norm, especially since Farmer K’s day time job is in technology, and not related to agriculture. Perhaps at some point in the not too distant future we shall see him employing high tech systems within his (hopefully) much larger farms.

From his projections which I got to look at, the returns on investments are not too bad, not to mention that farming can be relaxing when one is used to the hectic city life.

A template to follow perhaps in the very near future…