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ITEM travels to Africa. This is where these daily travel diaries will appear.

Trip Diary 1: It’s Time to Get Back to Africa
It has been almost a year since I’ve posted a report in the ITEM blog. I will be on my way to Kenya in a few days so the reports (we are now calling them “Trip Diary”) will resume. Things have changed. Yahoo cancelled their Groups and Group-emails all together and deleted all information and mailing lists, so we are trying to reconstruct this list from the ground up.
Because of Covid and the added rules for crossing borders in Africa, I will be in Kenya only. Between January 22 and February 6, when I am back home, I will be involved in three strategic meetings, a seminar, and meetings with our teams in Kenya and Uganda.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS PLUS YOUTH-TRAINER ADDED TO UGANDA TEAM
Prenote: I am currently in the Nairobi, Kenya lounge waiting to board my flight to Amsterdam. We leave at midnight. This is pretty long. But