Category Archives: Africa

An African Sun Shower – Kili Initiative 2019 #14

December 9, 2019 – 6:03 pm

We returned to the small town after the climbing exercise at the Maasai Rocks. JM said we had the afternoon free. The Kili Initiative team took a break. I wandered to the nearby school. The students had left for the day. Their departing footprints scored the dust. The school served the scattered communities. The ground […]

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Maasai Rocks – 2019 Kili Initiative # 14

December 3, 2019 – 3:06 pm

After a quick lunch of sandwiches the Kili Initiative squad headed to the Maasai Rocks to learn climbing techniques. The footpath was typically dusty and the sun was high in the sky, however the temperature was pleasant on the high equatorial plain. I lagged behind the group as a rearguard against a lion attack. While […]

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Tree Planting # 13 – Kili Initiative 2019

December 3, 2019 – 12:12 pm

Trees have dramatically disappeared from the Maasai Marra with the change in climate and the increase of goat herds. The Kili Initiative has been dedicated to fighting this deterioration of the by promoting the planting of trees around schools by the students and Kili Initiative team members. We rose early and washed with the small […]

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The Middle Of Nowhere # 12- 2019 Kili Initiative.

December 1, 2019 – 9:59 pm

The younger members of the 2019 Kili Initiative team were exhausted from the slog up Lolopange and were happy to depart from the thorny slopes of the arid hill. I asked the group, “What would rather do? Climb Lolopange or spend a night in jail?” “Jail,” they answered as one and we all laughed at […]

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Lolapange – 2019 Kili Initiative # 11

October 29, 2019 – 4:55 pm

After dawn the Kili 2019 crew washed in small individual bowls. Face, hands, and arms. I hit everything. Old men smell bad in the heat. We gathered their packs, as Johnny folded the tents to transport to our next campsite. I put my backpack on the three-wheeled tuk-tuk. “You aren’t carrying yours,” asked Vanessa, as […]

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