Bush Volleyball

There are 12 hours of sunlight in Gambella.  Every day.  365 days a year.  The amount of sunlight on the shortest day in Gambella is only nine minutes less than on the longest day.

If you are a youth in Gambella, and are no longer in primary school, there aren’t a lot of options for how to spend your daylight hours.  If you aren’t out with the animals, or fetching water, or preparing a meal, what can you do with your time?  Most of the options available are not good ones—until now.

Hassan, one of the GHNI workers in Gambella, came up with the idea of putting up a volleyball net, so that young people can have something positive to do with their free time.  So, two days ago they got a couple posts from the lumber yard (or timber store, as they call it there), and put up a volleyball net.  I never thought I would see volleyball out in the bush of Kenya!  The next trip that GHNI will take to Gambella is in February.  Who wants to play some volleyball?

Abdi (another GHNI worker) took more pictures that he put on the Gambella blog.  You can see them at http://gambella.ghni.org.