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into KenyaInterim Report Nov.2008 – Feb.2009
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Dandora Youth for Community Development after their Journey
 
22. February
2009
 
c
ompiled by
:
Nar
aya Urban-Winterfeldt
Moses Aran Oindo
 Accr.Jo
urney Practitioner
 
Journey Grad
 
narayajourney@gmail.com
 
moseoindo@yahoo.co.uk
 
+44 (0)7914 916638
+254 (0)725 635 440
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The
aim of this report is to document and summarize the voluntary
Journey
work that took off 
in various Nairobi slums
as well as S
outh
Nyanza ru
ral areas since the last
Journey Intensive
in
Nairobi
, 26th
-
28th
October 2008.
Community based and one
-
to
-
one
Journey work in these areas has
been carried out
at the request of local groups and individuals
by
Martine Kappel
(Nairobi),
Naraya Urban-
Winterfeldt
(currently
UK), both Accredited Journey Practitioners,
and
 
Moses Aran Oindo
 and
Anderson K
ivairo
 who attended
the Journey Intensive as wellas Advanced Skills Seminars in Nairobi Oct.2008.
Other individuals
involved with and interested in further training in
The Journey in Kenya:
 
·
 
John Odhiambo Odida
, 47
, teacher, Kanga Omuga Primary
School,
W
est Kasipul, Oyugis, South Nyanza
 
·
 
Joshua Oluso Otieno
, 43, chief,
Konuong’a
 sublocation
,
Oyugis, South Nyanza
 
·
 
Charles Mbaka
, former Ambassador and Vice Parliament
Secretary of the Republic of Kenya, P.O.Box 67520, Nairobi
 
·
 
as well as almost every member of 
the
Dandora Youth for
Community Development group
 
and its branches.So far,
about 125 teenagers and young adults age 13
-28
havereceived multiple
group Journey
s, mainly using the Journey In TheClassroom Process
. Processes were carried out in the context
of 
regular meetings arranged by Dandora Youth for CommunityDevelopment’s Chairman Moses Oindo in Dandora, Kariobangi andKangemi slums and facilitated by Moses himself 
, Anderson or
Martine/Naraya.
Full video coverage of the first meeting with
the
group is
available.
Furthermore Moses and Martine led 7 sessions with approx. 130
children age 5
-
14, both in Dandora and Kariobangi as well asintroducing the Journey and facilitating group processes with a
Catholic Women’s Association Group (widows, 15 members
age 25
-
45) and an HIV/AIDS Victim’s group (8 female members age 22
-
50).
Additionally, between Nov. and Feb. Moses facilitated morethan 25 individual Journey processes, using both the Physical aswell as Emotional Journey process scripts and advanced skill
s he
learned during the seminars he participated in.
Greatly helped by
various members of his youth group, he even translated the entire
Journey In The Classroom script into Swahili language.
 
In January 2009 Moses visited his home area, Konuong’a location
,
Oyugis, South Nyanza. Here he called for a meeting with local you
th
and community leaders
and equally facilitated a group Journey for
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them. This visit was repeated on Feb. 20
th
2009 with Naraya
attending and facilitating a further Journey process for a g
roup of 20+ locals including Chief 
Joshua Oluso Otieno, the headmaster of 
the local God Agulu
primary school and Mr. John Odhiambo Odida,teacher at nearby Kanga Omuga Primary School
and member of 
Kasipul West Integrated Self Help Group (KWISH)
.
During her brief visit to Kenya from 17
-
25. Feb. 2009 to further
anddeepen
the Journey work initiated, Naraya also ha
d the honour
to
meet and work with former Ambassador and Vice Parliament
Secretary Mr. Charles Mbaka 
as well as a few of the 40 or so
individuals
who graduated from the two previously held Journey
Intensives in Nairobi.Overall, we estimate that through Moses’, Anderson’s,
Mar
tine’s and
Naraya’s involvement, from Nov08 to Feb09
more than 350
individuals have benefitted from being introduced to an
d using The
Journey as a tool for ongoing self 
-
discovery, forgiveness, healing,learning, realization and ultimately immense transformation
-
in anation that is riddled with poverty, ill
health, unemployment,corruption, and most recently the 2008
post
-
el
ection violence (
click
hereto read the
full
official report on the conflict).
 
Naraya in Dandora
 
 “My Journey Hero” by Sinclair, age 8
 
Sinclair, Dandora
 
Mr. Mbaka writes to Naraya:
 
“I write to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to take me  through ‘My Journey’. The Journey is a very new experience to me. Although I
have read a 
bit of Social Psychology in University and NLP in the recent past, Ihave never had a deeper experience than the Journey. Having gone through it in 
detail, I feel I have expelled fears, inhibitions and several emotional negative 
 thoughts/feelings that hav 
e created mental blocks in me all my life. My new self 
is open, loving, reaching out and ever willing to help others go through their Journey. I wish you a safe journey back to the UK and look forward to your 
return.”
 
Amb. Charles Mbaka, P.O.Box 67520, Nairobi, Kenya, 24
th
February 2009
 
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