i left my heart in marigat, kenya. - siena college · craziest, funniest, most playful and loveable...
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I left my heart in Marigat,
Kenya.
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As I attempt to share my experiences with
you, I would like to tell you first that these
words will not and could never do justice to
the spirit, the life, the poverty, and the love
that exists in Marigat, Kenya. With that said,
I will begin, most naturally, at the
beginning
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It was a long
two days of
travel for me to
get from my
home in the
Pacific to
Nairobi,
Kenya. After
an overnight stay at a Catholic home, one of
the sisters came to pick us up the following
morning. With the Jeep packed full with our
seven bags, filled with medical supplies and
items for donation, I and my two other
classmates, Katie Williams and Michael
Ashamalla, managed to find a seat and
began our two journey North to Marigat.
The Journey To Marigat and First
Impressions
Being my first time in any African country, I
did not know what to expect. The landscape
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was breathtaking. From cruising through the
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wide-open plains to driving high above the
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famous Great Rift Valley, to seeing grazing
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zebra
and
wild
baboons
on the
side of
the
road,
the
entire
ride to
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Marigat
was a
fantastic first impression of the country of
Kenya. After approximately two hours and a
brief stop in the city of Nakuru, where we
purchased toiletries etc. with our newly
exchanged Kenya Shillings, we slowed
down and made a slight right onto a bumpy
road lined with small shops, women selling
produce, and men working on bikes. There
were goats everywhere. The road and the
building were dusty. The sun was beating
down on the children running in their school
uniforms. We were in Marigat.
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Our House
The four of us, Michael Ashamalla, Antony
Mathew, Katie Williams, and I shared a
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small house on the convent property. We
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each had a bed and used mosquito nets to
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keep the bugs at bay while we slept. We
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purchased electric fans to make the night
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heat more bearable, and could not have
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survived without our fly swatter and can of
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bug spray. From moths to scorpions, roaches
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to ants, spider to bugs I have never seen
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before, we were always surrounded by
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critters.
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The Sisters
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Before my experience in Kenya, I had never
come in contact with a Catholic nun. My
expectations of what living with the sisters
would be like came from movies and
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television shows from my youth. It was
nothing like what I expected. THE SISTERS
WERE AWESOME. These have to be the
craziest, funniest, most playful and loveable
sisters in the world. Always singing and
laughing, these sisters, each with their own
strong personality, are a cross between
Whoopy Goldberg, from The Sister Act, and
the American comedian Wanda Sykes. They
became our family in Kenya. We shared
every meal and spent every night with them
watching nail-biting tele-novellas and the
most exciting East African Singing
Competition. With each day, we loved each
other more, and every day since I have
returned from Kenya, I have kept them in
my heart and in my prayers. These sisters do
amazing things for the Marigat Community.
They are leaders and servers of the
community. Each sister has her own project,
running a school, creating and maintaining
agricultural programs, providing aid for the
ill and the elderly, and managing and
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serving as the chief of a clinic for mothers
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and children.
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The Amenities
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We did not have a flushing toilet in our
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house because we did not have running
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water. We had to manually flush the toilet
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with buckets of water that we retrieved from
the spigot on the property of the convent.
We showered every night in the Convent
where the sisters slept. The water was cold
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but after a hot day in the sun, showers were
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refreshing. We hand washed our laundry
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with the spigot water and hung our clothes
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to dry on a clothesline we brought with us.
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Life was good in Marigat.
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The People
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I promised Mark, a man from Nakuru,
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Kenya, that I would tell the entire world
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about my experiences with Kenyans.
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Kenyans
are some
of the
nicest
people I
have ever
met. Of
course, in
any big
city one
must
practice
common
sense and
be aware,
but every
Kenyan that I encountered was genuinely a
nice/friendly person. The people of Marigat
were smiley and generous. They were eager
to learn about our culture and proud to share
their culture. The children were amazing and
inspiring. They loved to be in school and
were so happy to share their knowledge,
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games, and stories with us. They taught us
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how to dance, Kenyan style, and always
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waved at us when we saw them in town.
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Once, Katie, Michael, and I walked a group
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of girls home one afternoon. We walked
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deep into the neighborhood of tin-homes and
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plywood shacks and after saying good-bye
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to the last girl, we managed to find our way
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back to the main road. Suddenly we heard a
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small voice and fast footsteps behind us,
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“for you, for you!” she was saying. We
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turned around to see one of the little girls
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running behind us to give us a sweet (candy-
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gum) for walking her home. Marigat is a
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small, poor town. Most of these people have
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very little after paying school fees and
putting food on the table. This small piece of
gum meant more to me than the most
expensive gift money could buy.
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The Service
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Going to Kenya, I assumed my major
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service project would be working in the
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medical clinic. In the clinic, we weighed
babies by wrapping them up in their
mother’s shawls and hanging them from
grocery scales. We recorded the weights in
giant record books and wrote in new weights
and recorded necessary vaccines on the
child’s “card” which served as both a birth
certificate and collection of health records.
We were able to give the babies vitamin A
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doses and vaccines for various diseases. We
saw many sick children and dedicated
mothers, who would often walk an entire
day to the mobile clinic site. The mobile
clinics were an experience, to say the least.
We would sometimes drive hours on the
worst roads I have ever been on to set up the
clinic on a pile of rocks under a large tree.
Once, we drove for two hours, up a
mountain through the mud to find that the
only road to the clinic site, impassible due to
heavy rains the night before. There was no
cellular connection and no way to tell the
women who were probably waiting that we
would not be there with to treat them. The
children would have to wait another month
to receive their vaccines, and mothers would
have to wait another month to receive blood
work and any other health care they needed.
In the afternoons, we spent time with the
children from the primary schools. We
played games, soccer, did crafts, played with
bubbles, danced, and just hung out. The
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children are so loving and have such pure,
honest hearts. They were so curious about us
in the beginning, examining our skin, our
hair, our clothes. Eventually, however, we
built relationships and became a part of their
life. My only regret is that I only had 6
weeks to spend with them and could not
share more time with each of them. We also
were able to join one of the sisters on her
“walks.” We would walk for 3-4 hours in
the morning, before the sun was too brutal,
through the outskirts of the Marigat district.
She would bring food, soap, and other things
she thought might be needed on the walk.
She would visit her “clients,” people that
relied on her programs to survive. Some of
them were recovering from severe illnesses
such as meningitis or debilitating infections.
She had handicapped clients and very
elderly clients. During one trip, we assisted
Sister in washing, feeding, and changing
crippled Gogo (meaning grandmother in
Kiswahili) who could no longer walk. On
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these walks through the barren bush, shacks
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were scattered on the red, sun-baked dirt.
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These homes were made of twigs tied
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together, and if one had more money, they
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could afford corrugated tin. I had never seen
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this level of poverty before, nor since, this
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trip to Kenya.
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I left my heart in Kenya. I left it with the
sister. I left it with the children. I left it with
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the villagers. I left it with the bugs. I left it
with the goats. I left my heart there, but
came back with so much knowledge,
strength, and love. All of which were gifts
given to me by the people of Marigat,
Kenya. I will never forget what I learned
there, what I witnessed there, and all the
people I met and faces I saw. I left my heart
in Kenya; All that means is that I HAVE to
go back.