Homabay

On Thursday this week we travelled from Kisumu to Homabay and back. A very long day. The school we visited was in a very poor state. The children were sharing beds and it was very overcrowded. They were well fed and are being educated but their day to day care is an issue. The Catholic preacher who runs the school was arrogant and very argumentative with us - we are reporting him anyway and trying to sort out what should be done. Over 250 children are sleeping on damp floors without mattresses. I could say loads about this place but it might be said that conditions are better than they would be at home.
We had hoped to see hippos on Lake Victoria here but there was to much to do. We had dinner in a local traditional bar with the kenyan guy who works in the UN office.

On the way back to Kisumu we witnessed a very nasty accident between two motor bikes. A woman, in her late seventies i would say, who had been on a bike had been badly injured and was lying on the road bleeding everywhere - we couldn't touch her, HIV issues, so some of the local people put her in our 4x4 and took her and another, younger girl to the hospital/clinic. There was no doctor in sight when we got there. Because i had given them some paracetamol they thought i was a doctor. Anyway i paid about two pounds for some treatment and left them in the good care of the nurse running the show.
A very long and hard day not helped by the heat and the fact that we couldn't drink much - no loos to speak of and certainly no privacy.