{"id":113842,"date":"2020-10-23T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=113842"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:11:48","slug":"at-home-in-western-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2020\/10\/23\/at-home-in-western-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"At Home in Western Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all been spending more time at home these last few months, though what “home” looks like is as unique as the people inside it. Today we share images from life at home in Western Kenya, where our teams continue to train communities to help empower them to stay safe from the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The similarities – and differences – in pandemic-era life around the world are striking. From our own team members’ families to the communities they serve, these are images of daily life – kids playing outside while home from school, lunch cooking on the stove, parents navigating new norms in their everyday life, and more.<\/p>\n

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Team member Mercy with her family outside their home<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fetching water from a protected spring<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Wilson teaching his son how to air-dry his hands after washing<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Allan with his wife Mourine and their daughter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Braiding sisal rope<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Lillian working out at home<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lifting weights using locally made equipment<\/p><\/div>\n

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A grandmother watching her grandchildren<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Gladys balancing working from home with being a Mom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Weeding the farm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Georgina creating content for her online makeup tutorials<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plaiting a friend’s hair<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Olivia supervising her daughter’s online classes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Weaving a basket<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Emmah spending time with her daughter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sifting her maize before drying it<\/p><\/div>\n

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Drying maize in the sun<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inspecting every maize kernel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Jonathan playing with his son<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sprucing up the house furniture with some fresh paint<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Mary enjoying breakfast at home with her children<\/p><\/div>\n

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Harvesting charcoal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Ken washing his hands before going back into his home<\/p><\/div>\n

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Transporting bananas for planting<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Betty feeding her chickens<\/p><\/div>\n

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“How about a cheeky pose?” by team member Victor<\/p><\/div>\n

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Doing the laundry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hanging the laundry to dry<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Sam playing guitar and singing with his wife Rachael<\/p><\/div>\n

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At work modeling mud into bricks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oven for drying bricks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Making a brick delivery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Elvine knitting<\/p><\/div>\n

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Planting the next season of maize<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Jemmimah taking a selfie<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cutting the grass<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Karen practicing piano while her son looks on<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chopping firewood for cooking<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Christine at home with her kids<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cooking lunch while watching the baby<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sukuma wiki, the traditional dish of cooked greens, simmering<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Protus cooking lunch for one in his apartment<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stirring the maize and beans on the stove<\/p><\/div>\n

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Preparing milk inside a dried gourd<\/p><\/div>\n

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Slicing plantains<\/p><\/div>\n

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Washing utensils in front of the dish rack while a puppy sleeps on the grass<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Erick playing with his daughter<\/p><\/div>\n

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Refinishing the house by smearing a thick mud mixture over the old interior walls<\/p><\/div>\n

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Boys showing their homemade mud cars<\/p><\/div>\n

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Girls playing jump-rope<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Christine with her husband Joel, awaiting their first child; their daughter was born two weeks after this photo<\/p><\/div>\n

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A boy shows the toy motorbike he made from plastic containers and sticks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Jacky with her family, trying to get the baby to look at the camera<\/p><\/div>\n

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Taking care of the livestock<\/p><\/div>\n

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Team member Patience tending to her flowers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Celebrating a newly completed spring protection<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve all been spending more time at home these last few months, though what “home” looks like is as unique as the people inside it. Today we share images from life at home in Western Kenya, where our teams continue to train communities to help empower them to stay safe from the coronavirus. The similarities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113842"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114218,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113842\/revisions\/114218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}