Video coverage day
This was a very interesting day for the whole team!
We had the video coverage crew, staff from office – Stella, Peter, James Kamau and James Mwangi. It was an adventure for people like Peter and the Video crew being their first time in Kibera slums.
We started off with Ayany primary school. The Head teacher Mrs.Khayeri has always been helpful during such visits. We took shots of the children in class rooms as the learning continued. There was no interruption as the pupils continued as if nothing was taking place. Afterwards we took shots of the children during break time, with them all over us– kids really like photos and videos!! We had interview sessions with three students who are in class 8.
A trip to some of the houses where our children live in Kibera was an adventure to the crew. We managed to take a few photos and interviews with the guardians of the children that we support. On our way back Peter stepped on something awful, this made him scream so hard!!
We later went back to the office to do interviews for Stella, Julia (community worker) and myself. This was done in a very short time. I felt like I was in some studio with all the floodlights, the heat and the microphone. It was a nice experience…..
I believe it was a good experience for the group which had visited the slum for the first time. It is always good to know how other people live, interact with them and also to have a glimpse of what it is really like to live in a slum. These people are not different from any of us, it’s just the environment and the situation that makes it look different but we are all the same, we suffer from the same diseases, learn the same syllabus, eat the same food and go to church just like everybody else. They may be less advantaged but they are all human beings.