PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT to PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Kitui, Kenya, East Africa: An opportunity for Extension Educators and Specialists to meet and interact with farmers, laborers, government officials, and those living positively with HIV/AIDS.
Join me on a humanitarian mission to the Friendship Force of Kitui, Kenya. My African friends will welcome you with dancing and singing. Greet the state’s governor and other officials. Visit subsistence farmers and learn about their crops. Worship at the Inland Protestant Church and celebrate the completion of Chuluni Preschool. Lay a brick in the foundation for Chuluni Library. Give a child her first very own book to love and cherish. Give an HIV orphan a goat to help his extended family become food secure.
In the USDA/USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Program, volunteer assignments have led me down a path beyond my wildest expectations. You too can prepare yourself for international opportunities beyond your wildest expectations in research, Extension, and/or teaching.
DATES: February 15 – 28, 2017
Optional Post-Safari in Kenya: Feb. 28-March 4, 2017
Optional Post-post-safari in Tanzania: March 4- 13, 2017
For information contact me at krockwell1@unl.edu or 402-484-5431. Dr. Kay Rockwell, Professor Emerita & Extension Evaluation Specialist, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications (ALEC)
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Overview
February 16-March 1, 2017
Day 1 starts with a Nairobi City tour.
• Revisit “Out of Africa” at the Karen Blixen Museum
• Get up close and personal to giraffes at the Giraffe Centre
• “Taste the Exotic” at the Carnivore Restaurant
• Intermingle with women at work in KAZURi Beads Factory and Pottery Centre as they make jewelry in a Fair Trade environment. Browse their showroom of finished products.
On day 2, travel about four hours to Kitui to be greeted by the FF club members for a very exciting FF Exchange. You will:
• Enjoy delightful cultural music and dance performances
• Enjoy a traditional roasted goat served with ugali and flatbread
• Cook local foods and enjoy the true African and Kamba cuisine
• Appreciate the warm hospitality in the home of a Kitui family
• Meet an HIV orphan and give him/her one Billy and three ewe goats
• Hike the hallowed rock and enjoy fresh sceneries and beautiful sunsets
• Travel ‘country’ roads over rocky terrain where subsistence farmers grow their family’s food.
• Attend worship with your home host at the Inland Protestant Church at Chuluni
• Tour Chuluni Preschool, the humanitarian project of the 2014 FF trip to Kitui which was dedicated May 2015.
• Break ground for a public library to serve needy children
• Opt for other things depending upon your interests.
Optional Post-safari to Tsavo East and West, and Amboseli National Parks*
March 1-5, 2017
For the 5-Day Kenya Exclusive Safari, you will travel via Custom-Made Safari Van with pop roof tops vehicles in Tsavo East and West National Parks noted for…
…Magnificent game viewing of vast herds of dust-red elephant, fat pods of hippo, giant crocodiles, teeming herds of savannah dwellers plus a fantasia of birds and magical flora. …Vervet monkeys famous for their human-like characteristics, such as hypertension, anxiety, and social and dependent alcohol use.
…the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary which is bringing the endangered black rhino back from the brink of extinction.
Enjoy Amboseli National Park, the second most popular national park in Kenya where…
• …its fragile ecosystem supports a wide range of mammals and birds.
• …Maasai continue their age-old traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle.
• …Maasai will welcome you in their village to experience their culture, traditions, and lifestyle.
Optional Post-post-safari to Tanzania*
March 4-13, 2017
For the 10-Day Untamed Tanzania Safari, you will travel via 6-passenger safari vehicles…
…where great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle trek for fresh grazing.
…where tree-climbing lions, large troops of baboons, solitary leopards, cheetahs, and jackal species, as well as golden-manned lion prides feasting on the abundance of plain grazers.
...into the swamps with 550 bird varieties
… up onto drier grounds with the Kori bustard, the stocking-thighed ostrich, and small parties of ground hornbills.
You can opt for a hot air balloon ride over the vast herds of wild game.
A tour of Arusha town will orient you to the African life style.
*Detailed descriptions of daily activities are available upon request (krockwell1@unl.edu or 402.484.5431)