Joanna Goldberg sends biweekly communiqués from Kenya, where she’s living with her kid
I’m in the field all week, which in NGO-speak means I’m not in the office but travelling around the country to participate in workshops, facilitate discussions, build capacities, blah blah blah. This week, it’s a series of trainings in pediatric care for grandmothers who look after orphaned children (not always their own grandkids). This week also happens to be school break for Cameron, so I had no choice but to bring my daughter to the field with me.
Back home, this would be impossible, of course. But I’ve lived in Kenya long enough to know I needn’t fret about how Cameron would amuse herself for an entire week while I was busy trying to decipher Bantu languages and Kiswahili so that I might write a brochure on the grandmothers’ key messages and perspectives.
