| Et unikt år! Chicken, here?This is something I saw a lot of when I was in Kenya. Chicken walking, eating and minding it’s own business. It seems like noone owns them, but surely someone does, and propably someone is watching them.
But I must admit that I did not think I would ever see that in Norway. maybe on a farm, but elsewhere never. I thought I’d never see chicken walking, eating and mining it’s own business at the wayside of a norwegian road, right outside a norwegian city. My first thought was that they had escaped through a hole in the fence, cause they should’ve been enclosure of a kind, cause that what we do, isn’t it? I guess they’d escaped somehow. cause as far as I could see, noone was watching them. But I didn’t see anyone watching the chicken in Meru eather, if I didn’t take a closer look around. Soo, why is it, that in Norway we have to have fences and enclosures for our chicken? First thing; cats, dogs and foxes. They can hunt and eat the chicken. Number two; someone could steal the chicken. It is so much easier if they’re on you’re property. Third; The chicken may flee and never come back! 4 ; others can be bothered by your chicken, especially if you live in a city. Maybe this is why it’s okey for kenyans to have “losse” chicken, and norwegians cannot? Five; Money. 6th; harder to find the eggs. It is harder if you have to search a bigger area! And it will look stupid, imagine ! Last but not least; laziness? It is so much easier to have chicken in an enclosure, isn’t it? I think it’s posible to find more reasons, I sure there plenty of them. I’m sure this will not be the last time I see something “abnormal” in Norway, that is more than normal in the wider world. Just have a closer look at a norwegian newspaper, or pay a little more atention when you watch the news. ( se denne og flere blog-innlegg på http://cfclife.wordpress.com ) Lei av norsk mat?I dag har vi vært en uke på SUFH. 3 ganger om dagen er det brødmat, kun middagen er varmmat. Det kan være en utfordring for flere. Kenyanerne begynner å savne ugali, og armenerne savner… Hver lørdag er det risengrynsgrøt til lunsj, noe som ikke faller like godt i smak hos alle
Ingeborg liker risengrynsgrøt, men forsynte seg for mye. Se flere poster om SuFH på bl.a: KilimanjaroKlimakaravanen har herved startet. Akkurat nå sitter vi i Buss/overlandstruckene på vei til Dar Es Salam i Tanzania. På søndag hadde vi den første konserten, der ca 1100mennesker kom, og vi fikk samlet inn 9514underskrifter på gaten utenfor!
Vi startet turen i går, og krysset grensen til Tanzania. Vi ankom Snake Park i Arusha da det var blitt mørkt, og dro derifra kl 5 i morges. Så hvordan det ser ut der vet jeg ikke. Dessuten fikk vi sett Kilimanjaro i dag!
Jeg angrer ikke et sekund på at jeg ble med på dette! adapting to climate changeIt’s the 4th day on the conference. And today the first session about climate change adaption. Later a boy from Dandora Secondary school, nearby the Dandora dumpsite, that is known in Kenya as the second largest dumpsite in Africa. They told us about how they use garbage from the dumpsite to make valuable items. And that they use the food waist to make compost. Another school from the area of Victoria Lake, told us about how they are working to preserve the biodiversity, specially the papyrus swamps. Teach the locals to use the papyrus in a way that doesn’t ruin the area, and how to make more money the same time. They mentioned that they organize environment campaigns though arranging football cup, and that they have a eco-sanitary toilet that uses 6mounths to makes manure that can be used in agriculture. Some girls from Moi Secondary school showed us how they use plastic waist to make jewelry and other valuables. And that all the leftovers from the food they eat at school is given to a pig, instead of going to waist. Check out: http://www.interclimate.org/challenge/images/resources/southregion.pdf We also presented what KFUK-KFUM are doing for the climate cause, as the most important part of the Stop Poverty Campaign. National Youth Conference on climate changeAkkurat nå er jeg, Simen, Ingeborg og Espen sammen med Frøydis og Tiril (Kirkens Nødhjelp CFCere) og de fire kenyanske cfc-deltagerene og minst 230 ungdommer fra bl.a annet Kenya, Sambia, Botswana, Norge,Canada OG Sør-Afrika samlet på en nasjonal klimaconferanse i Nairobi, Kenya. Vi har hatt besøk av blant annet representanter fra kirkens nødhjelp Kenya og Somalia og den Kenyanske statsministeren kontor. George Omollo, cfc deltager fra Kenya har laget et lite sammendrag om noe om hva vi har gjort på konferansen i dag. Session: Mapping out expectations and responsibilities along the route to Durban It was an exciting afternoon for all the Caravan participants as the logistics of the overland travel to Durban was outlined by the Africa tour company; the official transport company to Durban. It was pointed out that the entire journey would take approximately 17 days, a stretch of approximately 11,000 kilometers. The trip operations director, Miss Kath and one of the trip leaders Mr. Kevin from Kenya facilitated the session. Session: Using media effectively to tackle climate change This session was essentially meant to highlight specific media avenues through which young people across the world can advance the climate change agenda. Social media, creation of agenda with content and engaging the media on the current climate change issues were some of the areas pointed out.Mr. Geoffrey Omedo, the program research associate, media capacity building at Africa adaptation Program facilitated the session. The young people were also encouraged to develop a culture of writing and reading to gain knowledge on global trends. Working at the E.B.D. schoolSince I came back to Tana I have been helping out at the school next to our apartment. The school is driven by YWCA and has about 80 students divided in two classes. Every day the children get a free meal. The budget for making a warm lunch for 80 students is 20 000 Ariary, approximately 55 NOK. Here is a list of what you can make for 80 children that costs less than 20 000 Ariary: With Landy as my translator I have also tried to teach the oldest students some English. So now, whenever they see me (which is quite often, since the school is right next to where I live), they call out “good morning, how are you”, with their cute Malagasy accent. MiarinarivoWe are back from two weeks in a small village called Miarinarivo. There we worked as teachers at a high school, worked with the FI.KRI.ZA.MA youth (YWCA of Madagascar), visited women in prison, went on several fieldtrips, worked as Pousse-Pousse (man with wagon) drivers, tried to be African, took a bath in a geyser, visited a cheese factory, helped nuns with gardening, visited a beautiful waterfall, ate meatballs with brown sauce, potatoes and pea stew TWO days in a row(!), stood in the center of Madagascar, made soya-tea and peanut butter from scratch and met some wonderful people.
Lager peanøttsmør
Knuser soyabønner til soya-te
En av klassene vi hadde
Betalte Kaja noen tusen for å dra meg rundt i denne kjærra. Kaja er dyr i drift.
Kaja, Ingrid, Asenath og Mary
Står midt på Madagaskar
Kaja og mor Miarinarivo
Hery fjerner skallet fra peanøttene
All in all, we had a wonderful time in Miarinarivo. Love from Ingrid&Kaja Livet i VanadzorEspen og jeg tilbringer dagene i Vanadzor, Armenia, og vi koser oss masse! Vi har snart vært her i 2 uker, og hittils har vi jobbet litt i YMCA-Vanadzor, vært i Yerevan (hovedstaden) for Armenias nasjonaldag, vært på en 4-dagers camp hvor vi lærte om hvordan kan skal skrive forslag til et prosjekt, og hva man må tenke på for å skaffe sponsorer, spist kokt hanekam og magesekk til kylling (Armenia byr på spennende ting!), startet på 2 nye prosjekter i YMCA + veldig mye annet! Akkurat nå sitter vi hjemme i stuen til Aram (fjorårets cfc-deltaker fra Armenia) for om 30 min går vanen som skal ta oss til Yerevan og møte “the norwegian delegation” hehe som kommer på besøk, og skal bo med Espen og meg på fine “Camp Aramian” som ligger rett utenfor Vanadzor, i landsbyen Pambak. Kl er 01.30, og merker jeg skal sove litt i bilen :) Tenkte bare å gi litt lyd fra oss, skal oppdatere mer nøye med bilder o.l. senere – lover! Men det viktigste er jo at vi koser oss og har det helt supert! Sneiks! – Ingajan (mitt nye armenske navn..) Besøk i SOS barnebyerVi har vært på besøk på SOS barnebyer I Meru. Jeg fikk ikke lov til å ta så mange bilder, for å skjerme barna.
Det var rundt 10hus, om jeg ikke husker feil. I hvert hus bor en mor og ti barn. Moren har eget rom, mens barna deler 3 rom. De har sitt eget klesskap og de eldste lærer opp de yngste i å brette og holde orden.
Vi var en stund ute sammen med barna. Guttene hadde en konkurranse i triksing med ball, men jeg lekte ”ride ride ranke” med noen av jentene. Europeisk hår er kjempe spennende! Rundt 2-3 barn var levende opptatt av å dandere håret mitt til en hver tid mens jeg satt der. Jeg må innrømme at jeg ble noen hårstrå fattigere i løpet av ”frisørtimen”. Etter triksingen sendte Eric flere av barna over til Simen og de unge ”frisørene” lekte og kjemmet håret hans med en pappbit.
I nærheten av barnebyen er det et universitet. Vi gikk bort dit for å kikke litt. Plutselig fikk vi se elefanter og bavianer på den andre siden av gjerdet!
Tilbake i SOS barnebyer Meru fikk vi middag og rykende fersk chapati. Jeg elsker chapati! Og denne ferske chapatien er den aller beste jeg har smakt! Om ikke alt for lenge tror jeg jeg må spørre om noen kan lære meg å lage det. Vi har også hatt Eksamen i Swahili ExhumationOn Friday we were invited to join Sikivy’s family (a man from the YWCA office) to a traditional ritual called exhumation. We didn’t quite understand what was going to happen, but were happy to experience some Malagasy culture. At the same time in Antsirabe, Sivert was taken to the same ritual. He definitely didn’t know what was going on; his guide speaking very little English.
Exhumation is an old ritual done by some Malagasy families to please their ancestors, believing the ancestors have the power to affect their lives. What they do during the ritual is to open the tomb where the dead family members are buried. They then take the body out of the tomb to put a new cloth around it, believing the spirit of the dead is cold and that rapping it in a new cloth every 4. Year will give it peace.
As creepy as this may seem for a Norwegian, who believes that the dead should not be disturbed, the atmosphere was not scary at all, on the contrary people were singing and dancing and having fun. Love from Kaja, Sivert og Ingrid @ Madagascar Communication for Change
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About us: Here we will blog our experiences during our CfC-year. The Communication for Change blog was started in August 2011 to make it easier for us to collect CfC-stories and communicate them to our friends and relatives, to involve more young people in the fight for a just world and recruit new participants to the CfC-programme. CfC is organized by the Norwegian YMCA-YWCA and run in collaboration with Norwegian Church Aid and financed by Fredskorpset. Through the Communication for Change program we want to promote solidarity in order to challenge and enable youth in North and the South to involve in global and local development issues. Check out the CFC-page at Norges KFUK-KFUM
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