Seventeenth Call, Kenya

Saira and Raisa Kanji informed us that the main religion in Kenya, a country with a tropical climate located in Africa, is Christianity, but a percentage of the population is also Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish. Many families have 2-3 maids who do laundry, make beds, and clean. Laundry is different there because while we have washing machines in the U.S., in Kenya everything is washed by hand. A lot of Kenyan citizens also build walls around their houses and hire a watchman to guard them. This is possible because the cost of labor and minimum wage are much lower there than in the United States. While labor is cheaper, food in Kenya is more expensive and almost on par with the cost of American groceries. The family we are speaking with spends an average of $200 on fresh groceries every week. Kenya also has a two year Immigrant Visa program to send their youth to different countries for college to support advancements in education. Kenya is incredibly advanced technologically, despite popular stereotypes, and they even invented one of the first mobile phone-based money transfer services called M-Pesa.

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