Eat So They Can Event

For the third year in a row, GVN has helped to coordinate a massive global dinner party called Eat So They Can. People from around the world host dinners to help raise awareness and funds tor starving children all over the world. This year I was living in Nakuru Kenya while volunteering in the pipeline IDP camp, so I wasn’t able to host or attend a dinner in person, but seeing as I was on the ground in one of the troubled areas I thought I could share my experiences and help the awareness part of the cause by speaking virtually to a party being hosted in Sydney Australia over Skype.

I made the trek from Nakuru to Nairobi for the event where I could be sure the internet would be fast enough to handle streaming video. I had my pockets picked and my spirits crushed a little on the journey, but tried to keep a positive outlook on the work being done here for the people I would speak to online the next day.

The scheduled time was late Saturday afternoon in Sydney, which due to the time difference meant very early Saturday morning in Nairobi. I met new people at the party and spoke about food security and the hungry children I’d met both in the slums of Lenana and the IDP camp. Explaining how they feed the children in schools as for some it’s the only meal they get all day, and it’s impossible to teach a starving child. It was a little awkward for me sitting in the middle of a modern Nairobi shopping mall, with well to do Kenyan’s doing their weekend shopping, while I spoke into my little laptop to people across the world. In the end the party raised almost $1000 for hungry children around the world. Those in Sydney were inspired to do more in the world and their communities to help those less fortunate.