[Imc-africa] Update from Nairobi

[John Bwakali]

Dear All,
  I wanted to communicate earlier but most of yesterday I was at the WSF offices here trying to get the visa letters for colleagues from Cameroon, Mali and Nigeria. FInd below update about this and a few other issues:
   
  Visa Letters: Matunga from the WSF offices had been under the impression that colleagues from the three countries were only coming for the WSF and had thus not even submitted their letters to the immigration department! When I calrified that some were meant to arrive on monday, he informed me that it will not be possible to get the letter from the immigration by monday. 
   
  As such, he advised that the earliest that letter will be there in friday next week. It thus appears that colleagues from these countries will have to postpone their flights to next weekend. This is really  unfortunate and it would have been great if they had responded earlier about this issue. I also thought that I will just go there and pick the letter after paying and presenting to them the scanned passports. The other thing they need are separate passport size photos. I have tried to scan the photos in the passports but some are not clear, and we don't want them to use this as another reason for delay. Is it possible to for colleagues from the three countries to postpone their flights?
   
  - Accomodation: The address of the house in Lavington where we are staying is Hatheru Drive, off Gitanga Road in Lavington. As mentioned in previous mails, it is fully furnished though we may have to buy a few more things like plates and cups, depending on the number of people who will be staying in the house. Once Fabian and Andy arrive on monday, we will arrange to fix there the ADSL internet and this should take a maximum of two days, so we should be having internet there by thursday.
   
  - Transportation: Ann (0721994881), Douglas (0734520729) or myself (0720792390) will be at the airport to pick you up and take you to the guesthouse. Whoever will be at the airport will have your names on paper and will be wearing very big smiles!
   
  - Communication: Once you are in Nairobi, you can buy mobile phone sim cards at a cost of between 50 - 100 kenya shillings depending on where you buy them. Most people here have Safaricom, so may want to use it as it is cheaper to make calls between a similar network. You can recharge the airtime at many outlets in the city centre and even in Lavington or any other part of Nairobi.
   
  - Food: there will be someone at the guesthouse to assist us with the cooking. She will work with all of us in the 'cooking teams'. Grace from Indymedia Kenya will assist in coordiation of this.
   
  - Volunteers: There will be several volunteers from Kenya coming to the house on different days to participate in the proceedings and also assist in different areas. Some of them are part of Indymedia Kenya but others are not (though we hope they will join us!) 
   
  Hmm.. I wonder if there is anything I am forgetting? Just sent me a phone text if you need any info urgently. Over to you now and see you soon!
   
  Cheers,
  John
   
  P/S To all chess and squash players, I challenge you to a game....

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