Maisha Poa

Maisha Poa (engl. The Good Life), a Fida-sponsored centre for street children in Nairobi, Kenya. I had the privilege to visit it a while back. Paula Konttinen (in photo) is one of my brother and his wife's collegues. A native Kenyan, Paula Konttinen has studied and lived in Finland for several years, speaks fluent Finnish and, as some of you guessed, is married to a Finn.

Maisha Poa's mission includes empowering youth by way of education and work. One project which is still on the experimental level is artefact-production, bags, boxes, and cards from hand-made paper. The paper is made from elephant dung, and I was shown the process. Hopefully soon they can start making a profit. For those of you who speak Finnish, click on the photo and check out the label text on this bag.