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 "Going to the Masai Mara area in southwestern Kenya close to the Tanzanian border.")
 "Our little group of 32 volunteers on our way to the airport.")
 "We arrived in Nairobi at night. We loaded up our bags and the building materials into a truck to prepare for our drive the next morning.")
 "The drive to the Mara West camp over dirt tracks and endless muddy fields.")
 "Pushing our jeep out of the deep muddy ruts.")
 "Amazing sights on the drive.")
 "A Hamerkop enjoying breakfast.")
 "One of the mud and dung huts in a Masai boma.")
 "A local Masai shepherd greeting us.")
 "Getting closer to camp... wildebeests and zebras dot the landscape.")
 "More of the Masai manyatas or living quarters within their boma which is the thorny acacia-branch enclosed camp.")
 "Our huts - tents made to resemble a manyata.")
 "We were totally in the wild - with impalas and hyenas strolling through our campsite, and the occasional lion tracks in the morning!")
 "A sighting of Masai giraffe walking through our camp - their patterns are different from the reticulated giraffe.")
 "This was our view on the way to the jobsite everyday, along with zebra and gazelle.")
 "We installed this windmill to generate power.")
 "Olopikidongoe school which was built by volunteers.")
 "A wonderful performance by the school kids. The singing and dancing is just incredible.")
 "Isaac and his (local) work crew.")
 "Laying bricks for the wall.")
 "Meanwhile the trusses for the roof go up.")
 "Working hard to prepare the roof trusses.")
 "Everybody pitches in young or old.")
 "Painting a door. The Masai love bright colors.")
 "Finishing up the inside of the building.")
 "The new school cafeteria and cooking area.")
 "Amazing sunrises!")
 "A upside-down sunbird, trying to get her fill of nectar.")
 "Beautiful portrait of a Masai woman and her baby.")
 "Young volunteers telling stories to about 700 Masai children.")
 "Musical program for the children.")
 "Distributing school supplies to the children.")
 "Thank you to Microsoft for donating the soccer balls.")
 "Making some new friends.")
 "Our little medical clinic.")
 "People would camp out in front of the clinic before we even got there. This clinic was the only hope for many of them - some too sick to even stand up.")
 "Donated medical supplies.")
 "This nile crocodile was on the banks of a river that we had to drive our Land Cruiser through.")
 "Hungry hippos.")
 "A relaxing lioness.")
 "A mother cheetah surveying the savannah.")
 "A mother cheetah and her cubs.")
 "A mother elephant and her baby.")
 "\"Thank you for coming\", says Africa.")
 "Running tests to check for typhoid and malaria.")
 "Explaining the dosage to a patient with the help of interpreters.")
 "The dental team hard at work.")
 "We handed out clothes and shoes. This little girl wasn't quite sure how to walk in her new shoes.")
 "More feet to cover up.... the needs are so great, it broke our hearts.")
 "Doing some door-side triage work with the help of an interpreter.")
 "More Masai women.")
 "Our little pharmacy, stocked with worm medicine as well as malaria, typhoid and dysentry medication.")
 "Went to the school to distribute reading glasses for those who needed it.")
 "We distributed many toothbrushes and toothpastes. Here's a baby gnawing on a toothbrush.")
 "We took 700 paper crowns which were a huge hit with the kids, each one said \"I am a child of the King\".")
 "The crowns were a big hit with the adults too.")
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