Trip to Kenya and Uganda. Umoja East Africa Fund

1. Karen and Alex Zizinga in Uganda
Lambi Fund fellow, Masters degree in sustainable agriculture from
Makerere University and advisor to Access for Action

2. Access for Action has severable sustainable
development projects: Clean drinking water for
community

3. Raise pigs, cows, goats and chickens for food security
and income

4. Beekeeping

5. Women’s association
Makes charcoal from plantain leaves and candles from beeswax

6. Met up w/ 1st Congregational Church in Nairobi, Kenya
We stayed at Desmond Tutu Conference Center

7. Kibera – one of largest slums in world – in Nairobi

8. Action Foundation Center
for special needs kids in
Kibera

9. We brought books and art supplies for the kids

10. Karen with Akili Dada founder Wanjiru Kamau
Akili Dada – leadership incubator for young Kenyan
women. Training for the next generation of leaders

11. Akili Dada team – strong powerful feminist leaders

12. Empakasi School

13. It was winter 72 degrees so they had to bundle up!

14. Green Belt Movement
Founded by my friend Wangari Maathai, first African woman to win
Nobel Peace Prize

15. Mercy came to Haiti several years ago and met her
again with GBM

16. Heard stories from Global Education Fund scholars
Presented SAT prep books

17. Visited John Mwangi and his family
He was a Lambi Fund fellow and trains people how to start up
sustainable enterprises and become self-supporting

18. Had to show off that I could operate a well
It was hard!

19. I gave them a laptop
Teaching them how to use it

20. I gasped when I saw what was in their backyard

21. A crocodile!!!

22. We worshipped with the Church of the Holy Spirit of
East Africa

23. Here is the church

24. Safari time
Zebras like to maintain eye contact

25. A rare sighting – a leopard!

26. Mama lion and her babies

27. I danced with Massai women
16 women married to two men

28. Singing with Massai children

29. Inside the chief’s hut
He showed us the medicinal herbs they used

30. Baby elephant walk

31. Our safari camp was next to a hippo community

32. The last afternoon there I had a glass of wine
on the deck

33. When a family of giraffes walked by!

34. Umoja East Africa Fund
• Alex, John and I formed an organization to
help people in Uganda and Kenya become
self-sufficient. A hand up, not a handout.
• Education, training, food security, small
enterprises.
• Filed paperwork and some of the groups you
have seen here will be its first recipients of
funding.

35. We will work together to
make the world a better place!