Education, Water & Belonging in Kenya

Author Robin Rosenbluth joins Big Blend Radio’s “Table & Compass” Podcast hosts Joelle Machia and Ryan Slough of Wanderers Compass, and producer Lisa D. Smith, for a conversation about her new memoir, "Living with Strangers: Healing a Wounded Heart in a Distant Land" (She Writes Press). Robin was eight when her mother died. Her father placed her and her younger sister in foster care, even though relatives had offered to take them. With help from a high school guidance counselor and a few scholarships, she made it to college. At nineteen she traveled to Songa, a remote village in northern Kenya near Marsabit, to teach elementary school. She lived there for nine months among the Samburu and Rendille people, and found more connection than she had known with her foster family or her father. The conversation follows her story through the UN Sustainable Development Goals: quality education (SDG 4), clean water (SDG 6), reduced inequalities (SDG 10), and life on land (SDG 15). Robin shares: - the story of a boy who asked only for a jar of water; - the adult literacy class she started by candlelight; - what a cup of chai says about welcome; - how vulnerability mended a friendship; - the difference between tourism and connective travel; - what people misunderstand about Africa; - a message for older foster youth; - how the Northern Rangelands Trust brought Songa into its conservancy network. LINKS & RESOURCESl - Robin Rosenbluth: https://www.RobinRosenbluth.com - Robin’s Substack, My Jagged Journey as a Debut Writer: https://robinrosenbluth.substack.com - You Gotta Believe: https://www.yougottabelieve.org - Northern Rangelands Trust: https://www.nrt-kenya.org - UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals - Wanderers Compass: https://www.WanderersCompass.com New episodes of Big Blend Radio’s “Table & Compass” Podcast air every first Monday. Listen to more episodes: https://www.bigblendmediahouse.com/table-and-compass Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.