Jill Richardson's Trip to Kenya Deserves Support-- Kenya or Bust. She will visit with Amy Lint and Malaki

Date:   1/19/2012 10:19:46 AM ( 12 y ago)

Jill Richardson's Trip to Kenya Deserves Support
http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/5053/kenya-or-bust

Feb 20-24: Fly to Kisumu near Lake Victoria and stay in Bondo District, also near Lake Victoria (Nyanza province if you're looking at a map). Here I'll be with Amy Lint and Malaki Obado of Grow Strong. I have an interview with Amy that will be published soon (I hope) and I cannot wait to share it with you.

The two of them are INCREDIBLE. Malaki is a Luo, the same ethnic group as Barack Obama's dad. Amy's from the U.S. and was assigned to Malaki's area while in the Peace Corps. They lived in San Diego for the past several years and both did amazing work on community food security and urban agriculture, although Amy has been the more recognized of the two (Michelle Obama and the New York Times both thought she did great work - not bad, huh?). Malaki's work is less celebrated but incredible all the same. He does beekeeping and bee rescue and set up an aquaponics facility, among other things.

If you look at a precipitation map of Kenya, you'll see that the area in between Nairobi and Lake Victoria is more or less where all the rain falls. However, Bondo District does not get enough rain. It's also suffering from a very high HIV/AIDS rate, which Amy spoke poignantly about when I interviewed her on Monday. They moved to Kenya yesterday.


GOT THIS EVENT ON MY CALENDAR

Join us for a fundraiser on January 30 at Local Habit to eat local food and drink craft beer in support of investigative journalism.

San Diego Journalist Jill Richardson is going to Kenya to visit Amy & Malaki
s non-profit Grow Strong and to research the impacts of colonialism, noeliberal economics, the climate crisis, land grapping, AIDS, pesticides, and GMO's in Kenya, and to learn about efforts to promot sustainable agriculture by Grow Strong and other NGO's

Time: 4:30-10pm
Date Monday, January 30,
Place: Local Habit, 3827 5th Ave (between Univ & Robinson in HIllcrest_

The deal: Jill bartends, you eat amazing food and drink delicious beers. All of Jill's Tips + $1 per draft beer will go toward her investigative trip to Kenya.

Jill's trip to Kenya is Feb 4-27. Her findings will be published on her blog (La Vida LocavoreP on Alternet, and in her upcoming book. The money wil only go toward necessary trip expenditures, and Jill is traveling on a budget! The book is tentatively titled Starves for Justice and will be published by Chelsea Green in early 2013.


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