The Light at the End of the Tunnel

The team’s stay is slowly approaching its end. While Birgit mainly took care of the kindergarten and the library (unfortunately many books are old and worn-out), Werner and Michael did the last installations. The biggest problem in the convent is still the Internet connection. Downloading the software update of only 485 MB for Sister Lucy´s laptop took five hours with […]

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Chesongoch and Endo – “Shit happens”

While Sunday and Monday was spent with the usual work like installation of the remaining computers and preparation of the hardware for the Kerio Valley, we set off early on Tuesday for our trip to Chesongoch. The “Easy-Coach” brought the group to Eldoret with a stopover in Nakuru and the equator crossing. There Sr. Judy was already waiting for us […]

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Of ‘Double Mokka’, Mice and Projectors

Most of Saturday morning we concentrated on the aches and pains of the Sisters’ laptops. A slow machine here, an overcrowded hard disk there. The laptop of Sr. Maria, who is now in Tanzania, was given Windows in Karen and the divice “thanked” with a long boot time until finally the Microsoft logo appeared on the screen. This clearly showed […]

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Yet they do work

Since we are going to Chesongoch on Tuesday, we first concentrated on making the notebooks and two barebone desk computers work. Whereas the notebooks went smoothly with Ubuntu 18.04 (with a little “forcepae” as mentioned before) there was a problem with the ACER monitors which, controlled by the barebones, showed an unreadable image on the screens. We were already exchanging […]

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One Michael follows after the other

The flight from Zürich to Nairobi was without problems. After the plane was de-iced Birgit and Michael could enjoy a journey without any turbulences. Only shortly before landing, the landing gear was extended with an unusually loud noise, the Boeing suddenly took off again. Some uncertainty spread until the pilot explained that another plane was blocking the runway. Passport and […]

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