New YouTube video - WE have so MUCH and THEY have so LITTLE!

A selection of photos taken during a recent trip to West Pokot in Kenya. The trip included a stay in Marich Pass and visits to Tikeet on the Masol Plains, where a clinic is being built, and Lomut which is about 30 km inland from Marich, where there is a weekly traditional market.
The area is inhabited by the POKOT people and meeting these people and visiting the area is always thought provoking. In fact one comment that was made during the trip was " We have so much and they have so little yet they are so happy!".............................. does our wealth and the materialistic world that we are privileged (?) to live in really bring us the happiness for which we continually strive? I think NOT! There is a lot to be said for a simple life where community still exists and people truly care about their neighbours and don't spend their lives attempting to keep up with the Jones' or to outdo them.
Just £3 (US$6) pays for a child's education for 3 months in Marich and just £10,000 (US$15,000) builds a school................................... the Pokot need 50 schools and 50 clinics and I propose to establish a charity to benefit the lives of the beautiful Pokot people through the provison of education and basic health care. This idea was first kindled in the mind of the late Dr. DAVID RODEN and in his memory I want to see his dreams fulfilled. This can only happen with the help of the Pokot people themselves, The Roden family who live in Marich and through your, the viewers of this video, help.
Please read the BLOG for further details................. and check for updates.

The target................. £1 miilion!

WE CAN DO IT and the lives of the POKOT people will benefit.

You can read more about this on my BLOG (http://habarifromkenya.blogspot.com/) and there are links here to my photos on Flickr and to much, much more about Kenya and the area we visited.

The soundtrack to the video/slideshow is a track by AYUB OGADA entitled OBIERO.

The above is the description used on the YouTube video (Click HERE)

What a journey, what a trip, what people we met.............. I know that I will never forget those wonderful, beautiful, thought provoking, awe inspiring days spent with 30 of the best students that I have had the fortune of teaching and spending time with.

I just hope that this can be the start of something much bigger which will benefit the lives of all those we met and all those in the area that we didn't!