Kajiado Mission

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Kajiado is a town in the Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
The town is located south of Nairobi, along the Nairobi – Arusha highway. Kajiado has an urban population of 8128 (1999 census) . Local people are predominantly of the Maasai tribe.

Kajiado is headquarters to the Kajiado District.

The name "Kajiado" comes from the word "Orkejuado."
Which means "The Long River" in Maasai language. The seasonal river named after the town runs west of the town.

The original name for Kajiado was "Olopurupurana", which means "a round elevation."

source : wikipedia


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Report from Patrick Wafula


. Photo Album . 01 - 08 .






Kajiado sunset—
white goats stroll home
in a single file

a boy and a girl
looking after goats—
parched grass





ostriches stroll
in undulating hills —
thorny bushes



the driver asking
if we are still in Kenya—
winding road


hill after hill—
the matatu nearly stalls
on a steep slope


walking two km
to the borehole for water—
winding road

winding path—
a torn leso abandoned
on a thorny bush

walking 40 km
to catch the bus stop—
a girl faints

parched lips—
sharing a half bottle
of water

distant borehole—
they skip a bathe a day
to save water

a teenage wife—
manyatta to manyatta
evangelism





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Heavy rains and damage in Kajiado - December 2013
Heavy Rains Cause Havoc in Kajiado
- Reference -

Kajiado flashlights -
pedestrians push the wreckage
upstream

flooded Kajiado -
the sound of sirens
from a distance

Andrew Otinga


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