Essentially our day was similar to previous days – each work team jumped into their appointed jobs. (By the way, the missing suitcase has been returned!)
This woman built this extension to her house by herself...
...and cuts and sells wood to make a living.
Linda working with Boniface, the tailor.
Maddie with a new young friend waiting at the clinic.
Not a flower nor am I sure what it is – but it's stunning.
Home visits
This woman built this extension to her house by herself...
...and cuts and sells wood to make a living.
Three rocks comprise an indoor cooking "stove"
This woman invited us into her home since it was raining – a tight fit for 12 of us! She's holding coasters she has made to sell, as well as her youngest of nine children.
Work Crew
Turns out the guys aren't always swaying in their hammocks - ha!
Sewing Community
The sewers are busy as always.
Clinic
The clinic continues to see about 200 patients each day. Pictured below is a patient with our full-time clinical officer, Anita, who runs the clinic five days a week when we're not here with our team.
I mentioned the "good weather" a couple of days ago but of course that's a highly self-centered way of looking at it. This is the rainy season but they've not had nearly the amount of rain they need to have good harvests. So the rain this morning was welcomed by our Kenyan friends, though of course it doesn't make up for the deficit. Still, it's beautifully green and lush. A few flower pics for you...
Not a flower nor am I sure what it is – but it's stunning.
uh oh...hope that last plant though stunning isn't this one....
ReplyDeleteCan be seen on Green World Kenya (has pictures looking like this one...)
INVASIVE JAPANESE DODDER WEED IS SPREADING FAST! WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU SPOT THIS WEED.
As our environment continues to degrade, species of animals and plants mutate and change behavior to adapt and survive and this can result in uncontrolled growth and destruction of species like in the case of the dodder weed. We are by now much acquainted with the invasive hyacinth weed that has covered our freshwater lakes. The dodder weed has parasitic tendencies and attacks its hosts (trees and plants) by sinking suckers in the host plant and sucks the life out of the plant. This weed seeds and infested plant material is also transported soil to distant vegetation aided by migrating birds, animals, human activity and wind. It requires a temperature of 60 degrees to germinate and can survive 5-10 days without a host. The Japanese dodder weed is the most destructive of the class of the dodder and has been spreading fast at the coast, western and nyanza regions killing trees in our forests, making its way to our farms and homes. The best control methods include; remove small infestations by hand, remove large infestations by cutting down and burning of the host plant, spraying herbicides to prevent seed production and planting host resistant plants like legumes, crucifiers or lilies. If left unattended the destruction to our forests and farms could be catastrophic reversing gains made in restoring tree cover or affecting our food basket.