Notes From a Native Daughter

In July, 2008, I, Princess Rachella, Intrepid African American Girl International Journalism Consultant, pulled up stakes once again and headed to Nairobi, Kenya. Through my various adventures, I've concluded that if I get any MORE explosively fabulous in these prequel years to "THE BIG 5-0," I will have to register myself with the Pentagon as a thermonuclear incendiary device.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Facing Reality


Okay, I've finally gotten around to posting more pictures of children from my trip to to the Maai Mahiu Internally Displaced Persons Camp. Here's a link to the Facebook photo album, "Dust Bunnies: The Children of Maai Mahiu"

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=95697&id=772031562

As with the earlier pictures from Northern Ugandan IDP Camps, I guess I'm trying to convey the enormous humanity and grace that exists even within the depths of despair. You cannot begin to imagine the horror of life in an Internally Displaced Persons Camp. Sometimes, I wish I didn't know myself.

But the moment we stop acknowledging our common link to people who find themselves in these desperate situations, they automatically vault ahead of us in the human race. They leave US in their dust.
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