Heartbreak in Kenya

I have just watched the loveliest tv programme this evening that had me in tears .... Elephant Diaries on the beeb follows the stories of the orphaned baby elephants at the David Sheldrick sanctuary in Nairobi .... orphaned baby elephants .... how can anyone even read those words and not well up ....

The programme was an emotional rollercoaster with a tiny wee blind baby being rescued (and then tragically dying ... leaving even the most hardened experienced keepers weeping) .... and most amazingly a game of elephant football for the boisterous group of teen-ellies to help them bond .....

It embodied everything that makes Kenya wonderful and glorious and gorgeous .... and made me cry even more as the news came on after .... with yet more reports from Eldoret and Kisumu amongst others of bodies, violence and more atrocities ....

Having had the pleasure of spending lots of time there - i love Kenya .... the people, the culture, the land .... i even (against all the odds) like Nairobi and Nairobi airport .... and to see this current crisis is truly heartbreaking.

I just hope that somehow the words of Wangari Mathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate from Kenya are heeded ....

Let us stand up for each other, irrespective of our ethnic backgrounds and political persuasions. Injustice to one is injustice to all of us. If we, individually and collectively, are not the conscience of our country, then who is?