There was a lot of things going on throughout Friday. Lindsay, Mikkel and I went to visit our friends Tushar and Lynn in Watamu, while work on the foundations continued here at Eco Moyo. Though visiting friends does not mean being unproductive. Tushar and Lynn are both passionate about helping the community in various ways, and if it wasn’t for their support and connections things at Eco Moyo would not have run as smoothly as they do – so much thanks the both of you!
One of Lynns current projects is investigating cheap ways to make jigger free floors. Lynn has in general dedicated much of her career to understanding Jiggers, and jiggers are a big problem in the underdeveloped parts of Africa. They are essentially larva that live in the ground and make their way under, into or under people’s skin. Where they live before they come out as god knows what – not experienced it myself, and have no plans of doing so. Anyhow, her project explores different mixtures of materials that may keep these bugs out of people’s mud houses/floors – thus preventing these things from affecting people in these impoverished communities.
Around midday we left Eco Moyo to meet up with Lynn and Tushar so that they could show us the different floors samples that Lynn and her team has made. Also that day happened to be a testing day, so some of the floors were driven over by a wheelbarrow with 100kgs to see what would happen to the floor, but also a rock was dropped to see how the floor behaves, if it cracks or if it just makes an indentations – at the same time as we arrived, a couple of Ethiopians had come to visit too – this shows the importance of this research I would say.
Afterwards we went to have some ice cream, before we ended the day in a street grill which I have been dying to have since last time I visited Kenya – it is hands down the best chicken I have ever tasted, and the setting of how one dines - on the street between cars, cats people – everything – amazing.
