During the summer of 2012, I spent twelve days trekking across Kenya with eight colleagues and two professors. My initial mission, fulfill the requirements of a graduate level course titled, Kenya Immersion Course. For the first six weeks of the semester, my colleagues and I collectively examined various social justice issues that affect both the United States and Kenya. We dissected issues ranging from global warming, to gender inequality to poverty, oddly enough greed could be found at the core of each woe. The final weeks of the semester were spent preparing ourselves to act as the group "expert" of a single issue throughout the soon coming journey ahead. Due to intimate nature of my relationship with HIV/AIDS, selecting an issue was easy.
To read this blog in its entirety, click here.
