The 2011 trip to Marich presented a new opportunity for the club, Friends Of Marich we were able to in partnership with Harmon Parker build a bridge and watch its opening and the significance it held for the local people of the west Pokot region of Kenya. The trip was about a week long and in this time we build a bridge and implemented other small scale projects such as installing a play ground for a school and providing another boarding school with enough food to last time sometime. By going on the Marich trip i wanted to explore the variety of culture you get exposed to in Marich and see what type of work Harmon Parker does and understand why he truly is a CNN Hero.
Our aims for the trip were to successfully install a bridge, learn about the pokot culture and learn about the living conditions in Marich. All of which we were able to do, learning how to gold sift and learning what a tedious and hard task it truly is helped us to understand how people in the region earn a living.
During the trip, we didn't encounter and major set backs all our plans fell through as planned and we were able to learn how to build a bridge and gain new skills through the process. The teachers that came with us on this trip were Mr. Currey, Mr. Robbins and Mrs. Thompson, in regards to the projects we did Mr. Currey and Mr. Robbins were the ones who ran that aspect of the trip, while Mrs. Thompson ran the more cultural side. The teachers taught us some new information about gold trading and the economic robbery going on in Marich. This drove us students to want to help the people even more, this coming school year of 2011/12 we will raise as much money as possible to implement more sustainable projects to help the people of the West Pokot.
If i could change one thing about the trip, it would be the knowledge i had before going into it, because going on the trip without and information made me wish that i had known the conditions of the people beforehand so i could have helped and provided more than i was able to. However all in all the trip was a great learning experience and i cannot wait to see what the future holds for the club
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