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\u201cHii nyumba ni kama nyumba ya mungu luna ipa heshima.\u201d<\/p>

(This house is like a temple, and we respect it)<\/p>– Shilla<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After months of planning, fund raising, and work, our trans haven in Nakuru, Kenya is a reality. This post is being written in the office of Eden House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We moved the first passengers in on August 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our awesome volunteer, Simon Ng\u2019ang\u2019a, found us a really special place. It\u2019s a lovely 3 bedroom 3 bath home with enough property for a chicken coop and garden. Its location on the outskirts of town is secure, quiet, and means we can move to the agricultural project vision gradually – renting a nearby field and expanding into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us in Nakuru have been working hard to turn the house from a rather dilapidated place that hadn\u2019t been lived in for some time to a lovely home. We\u2019ve cleaned a lot, we\u2019ve had plumbers in and figured out the NASA like complexities of the plumbing, done a lot of small repairs, and are moving on.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re currently a bit in the \u2018camping in our new apartment\u2019 stage, with mattresses on the floor and a single cheap molded plastic table and chairs. But we\u2019ve set up the kitchen (everyone but me seems to be a wonderful cook), and have daily basics like clothes washing, internet service, fridge, and so on established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we\u2019re starting our move towards self sufficiency by building our own furniture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The back porch currently has a lot of offcut lumber piled up, most of it with the bark removesd. We’re building 5 beds, a sofa, and a trestle type dining table.  In preparation, I taught a basic tool use class (it\u2019s not all one way – I finally got a proper lesson in how to wash clothes in a bucket from Sophia, I\u2019d struggled with this before). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As much as teaching concrete skills, we\u2019re working hard to get the women who grew up in the city used to the idea of doing for yourself.
Most of the folks in the house had little experience with self sufficiency, but they’re learning fast. In fact, after several ideas of how to build beds, we settled on an idea Arya came up with, based on used tomato boxes. And the idea of learning skills from YouTube is new to them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re purchasing some basic tools, some chickens, a sewing machine, and some art supplies.  Arya\u2019s interested in starting clothing production, and Sophia\u2019s a talented artist. Shilla brings many practical \u2018farm\u2019 talents – she\u2019s going to start raising chickens and lead the project to put in a garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, we have a large garden planted! Shilla took the lead on this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re doing more than we expected for this early phase of the project. We\u2019re ready to start some skills training, but need equipment. The tools are purchased, but we could use more, and we need to purchase a sewing machine, sewing notions, some fabric, and some art supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eden House is on a residential lot on the edge of town, down a narrow dirt road. About 50% of the surrounding lots are used for agriculture. Our original plan was a house or apartment, then move into some self-sustaining agricultural project later as we grew. Instead, I think we can just grow the house where we are for some time, perhaps renting a nearby lot for agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The compound is the former home of a local MP.  Politics can be violent in Kenya. For us, having a politician\u2019s house means the property is very secure – it has a tall stone block wall topped with broken glass and a secure iron gate. All windows have secure steel bars. If (a realistic possibility here) there\u2019s a violent protest, we\u2019re secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matching Funds For Eden House<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

One of our wonderful supporters (who wants to remain anonymous) has offered up a challenge. For every euro we raise, up to 2000 EU, she\u2019ll match it 1 for 1.\u00a0 So let\u2019s go, you can donate <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Help Eden house<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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