kenya

spring summer on 2005, i went to nairobi in kenya to build orphanage. not only orphanage but also to see education of AIDS, and to talk with orphanes, and to have a meeting again and again. the most impressive thing is the conversation with mama. in the conversation, they use the word "kufa" which means "die" in swahili. so firstly, i hesitated to talk with them. one day i talked with mama sunya. she was taking medicine of AIDS, except for her, nobody was taking medicine in our group, tumaini nyumbani. i asked " how much is it to take that medicine?" "1500sh per month. it's so expensive, who pays that money?" "i don't have money." "but you take everyday. who gives you this money? because we don't give you such money yeah? are you searching job?" " i'm searching man." i couldn't believe my ears. "what?" " if i sleep with man, i can get money." " but if you sleep with man, you give him virus don't you? you shouldn't do such a thing!" "it's a problem!" "you should search another work." "there is no work here." " are you going to sleep today also?" " i can eat here today in this meeting, so i don't sleep today." "does Onisi know that?" " she doesn't know. it's a secret between us." of course i told about it to Winnie and Onishi. they were shocked.
almost all of mama was affected by HIV through prostitution. when Tumaini started, Onishi and Winnie explained mama not to prostitute again and again and on that time, they shouldn't have prostituted. in the next meeting, i told mama sunya to search steady job and importance of being independent by swahili language hard because she doesn't know english, having a big qustion that can i tell her such a thing with arrogance because i don't know such poverty... i never know...
after going back to japan, winnie told us she doesn't come to meeting.
it's hard to understand each other.
their life and our life was quitedifferent. moreover, this group Tumaini Nyumbani has just bagun by Winnie and students in Japan and we have so much things to think about. but i have a hope because from last year, many Tumaini members joined and we took a lot of knowledge and after going back to japan, mama is going well in their buisness.

the reason why i remind the word "thank you" all the time is that i can live happily and freely so i have some guilty.the reason i look to Africa all trhe time is, because of this guilty.

today also, 6500 people died of AIDS in Africa.