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You can wander around Sigomre Town as you please. Just check with Chief Victor Opondo first, especially if you are European, so that people are not suspicious or worried if you start taking pictures. It's also for your own safety to have someone along with you to translate and show you around. You will attract a lot of interest if you are obviously foreign, but by and large, people are very friendly and want to say hello. The children, particularly, shout out HOW ARE YOU at the tops of their voices and find you very funny indeed. They also yell MZUNGU!!! which means European or wonderful in Kiswahili. I yell back AFRICAN!! which also causes a lot of amusement. It's even funnier if you speak Kiswahili to them.
Round the back are several small shops, internet cafes, hairdressers, chips shops etc, pics below show you what I mean.
The chips are safe to eat as they are fried in very hot oil, as is the fruit which you can peel. If you eat at the local cafe, it is important to wash your hands with soap and water. The cleanest thing to dry your hands on is the air or your skirt. People eat with their hands and you are unlikely to be offered any cutlery with which to eat your food. The coca cola or bottled drinks are safe as well.
You can have your hair braided at the hairdressers which not only keeps it out of your eyes but makes it easier to wash as it seems to get less dirty.
The internet cafe I found was run by Thadeus and his sidekick David Odour who is a member of VT, please welcome him. He is a young man, bright and computer literate who can help you connect and use the internet at 1 Ksh a minute.
More importantly, if you bring along a cheap mobile phone from home that is not locked into any service provider like Virgin, O2 etc, you can get a Kenyan SIM card for about 50Ksh which you can load up with airtime from a provider like Airtel. They sell the vouchers at small kiosks. Well worth it as the texts are 1Ksh each and calls 3Ksh a minute. Much cheaper than roaming with your own home mobile.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Phone: 0723866651 Chief Victor
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This local secondary school has accomodation for disabled children. These children are physically disabled but the mission statement is *Disability is not Inability*. Some are victims of polio. They live with a house mother in a dormitory and are well fed and looked after. There is a physio department with all the mobility equipment available as well as workshops to teach the children a trade like sewing, computers, woodwork, hairdressing, art etc.
There is a seamstress who makes all the school uniforms in different sizes for boys and girls. Every effort is made to give the children the best education possible, but sometimes the money is not forthcoming fast enough from the Catholic Church to pay the wages. Often credit is needed to get food for the schoolchildren.
This school can always use donations and volunteers to help with improving the education possibilities.
Ugunja Division, Busia-Kisumu Highway
P.O. Box 74
Sigomre, Saiya, Kenya 40635
Phone: +254 (0)57-34378
Updated Mar 9, 2011
Phone: +254 (0)57-34378
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A small town on the main Kisumu road in western Kenya. It boasts schools, cafes, hotels, shops, internet cafes, photocopying services, phone charging and airtime vouchers, a market and a health...
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