During the last couple of months, we have had writing and computer session with our young members. During these sessions, we have given the children subjects to write about along with instructions on how to write a blog post and use the internet to find information and inspiration. We are now posting some of the [...]
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The journey of an intern~Meet Cecilia…
Hi! My name is Cecilia and I am a new intern here at Wale Wale Kenya. I am studying Human Rights in Sweden and during our fifth semester of the program we are doing an internship to deepen our knowledge in something we are especially interested in, and getting the opportunity to use our [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern – the last one!
Five months has passed, and my internship is now over. That means it is time to write my last internship blog which, to be honest, is a peculiar feeling. I have spent the last week reflecting my internship and my time here a lot. Thinking about how much I will miss the kids, my colleagues, [...]
Academic follow up quotas…
The Academic follow up program has been very helpful in identifying areas where the kids were having problems in school work.Over the course of last year we were able to identify most of the individual kids weak areas or subjects they were lagging behind in. This year to make it more effective we are trying [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
I was doing so well regarding local food and stomach problems, I had not had basically any problems during my almost five months here. Until last Thursday… I had my first ever food poisoning from chapati and beans (not going to eat those for a while that’s for sure) that I had for dinner on [...]
What’s Next after highschool….
As from the beginning of last year we decided to change the structure of the organisation and one part of the changes was that we redefined our target age group.Previous to that we did not have a clear age limit for when our members actually exited from the program.We decided to set up a program [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
Christmas holidays are over, and we have all returned to work and the kids have gone back to school. That was a long holiday which meant a lot of action every day at Wale. I spent 10 days with my friend here in Nairobi and at the coast in Diani. We visited the Nairobi national [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
Wow last week was busy! That is why I am writing my blog a few days later this time. We had our football camp from Wednesday to Friday, followed by going to see some football games on Saturday and Sunday. Even though the week was busy, the football camp was amazing! It was so great [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
December is hereee! That means a Christmassy atmosphere everywhere, a lot of action at Wale and a lot of good and relaxing times ahead. Last Saturday’s dance performance was cancelled unfortunately, so I have no pictures to share from there. So, it was just a normal Saturday with art classes, movie, football and dancing. This [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
One more month has passed once again. It is basically December and it feels weird to live somewhere with 25 degrees at this time of the year. It certainly feels nothing like winter nor Christmas. My friends and family are enjoying the temperatures around -2 and 0 degrees. There’s not much snow in Finland at [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
After a missed flight and a few other complications, I arrived back from Addis late Monday evening. Apparently, the Kenyan visa procedure has changed and instead of getting a three-month visa at entrance, nowadays you only get one month which you can then extend with two more months at the immigration office. The reason for [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
I am halfway in my internship now, with two and a half months to go. It has been a time full of ups and downs, a lot of fun, learning, challenges and new experiences. I have had so much fun with the youth at Wale and in addition to teaching them different things in my [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
As I wrote in my previous blog post, the holiday programme started last week. It is different from Wale’s normal programming because there is no homework scheduled and we have a bit more activities than normally. The activities take place from 14 to 17. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays we have my drawing class and [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
The first week of the holiday programme is almost over. It has been a busy week, but it has been nice to have a different schedule and more activities. In addition to what we have been doing before, now we have also classes on acting and photography. Venna's first acting class was quite much fun [...]
Stories and experiences of an intern
Last Saturday we finally had the sketch books ready to get our drawing project going! I was so excited! We have 15 sketch books in total and the dream would be to full all of them but filling 7-10 is also a good start. We started with drawing different African masks because they are quite [...]
