The Global Venture to Kisumu via Nairobi and Naivasha is over. Howard Marshall, Aby Morley, Alice Matthews and Morgan Phillips all enjoyed an eye opening and very successful trip. While travelling round Kenya they kept the Global Footsteps community up to date via the Global Footsteps blog. All of their entries are still up and are hopefully well worth reading.

The venturers spent two nights in Nairobi where they were looked after by the Gichanga brothers Kevin and Dennis before heading to the Elsamere Field Studies centre on the shores of Lake Naivasha. At Elsamere they spent 4 days in the company of education officer Cliff Barkatch and investigated the environmental and social problems facing the local area. From Elsamere they headed to their main destinationon the shore of Lake Victoria, Kisumu.

Over ten days in Kisumu the team managed to forge links with several community capacity building projects all of which were keen to join the Global Footsteps network. They also met with schools and churches who are keen to link with some counterparts in Gloucestershire. All in all it was a very successful trip from which much will hopefully emerge.

Morgan Phillips, Howard Marshall, Aby Morley and Alice Matthews set out this evening on their Global Venture to Kisumu, Kenya, one of Global Footsteps oldest and most cherished links. They are all looking forward to breathing life into the link, strengthening the bonds between these two linked but very different communities. The team will arrive into Nairobi, Kenya's capital, on Monday afternoon, they will spend two nights there before travelling to the Elsamere Conservation Centre on the shores of Lake Naivashu. They will be staying there for four nights at a discount price thanks to the generosity of Cheltenham based Elsamere trustee, Jean Aucutt. As a thank you the team will be taking a suitcase full of Elsamere DVDs, pens, pencils and so on for sale in the Elsamere gift shop. From Elsamere they will be picked up by Edwin Ochieng who will take them to Kisumu. Arrangements have been made for the team to stay with host families while in Kisumu and they will be given the chance to get under the skin of life in East Africa. The team have much work ahead of them in Kisumu as they plan to make the most of their trip.

You can follow the progress of this Global Venture on our blog: http://globalfootstep.blogspot.com and the team plan to make a series of short films and radio interviews to share with everyone on their return.