Visiting Kenya with So They Can and Trilogy
Pre-race photo Last month I was lucky enough to be one of four employees sent to Kenya to meet the people behind Trilogy’s long-term partner So They Can . So They Can is an Australasian not-for-profit organisation working to educate and empower communities in Kenya and Tanzania. The four of us fundraised over $23,000 for this worthy cause by running the Maasai Mara half marathon through the national game park. We started our trip in rural Nakuru, north of Nairobi in the famous Rift Valley, by visiting one of the main communities So They Can work with. Miti Mingi Children’s Village Handing out gifts from NZ We visited Miti Mingi on our very first afternoon. It began after So They Can’s founder Cass Treadwell discovered children as young as 3 living on a rubbish dump in Nakuru, fighting animals for scraps of food. The children were orphaned through a variety of circumstances, but AIDs and the 2007 political violence in Kenya were two of the main causes.
