{"id":1205,"date":"2012-03-12T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2012-03-12T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:00:16","slug":"my-man-is-now-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html","title":{"rendered":"My Man Is Now in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only has my boyfriend Matt started an exciting new job as a Project Engineer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inveneo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inveneo<\/a>, but he just left to be on assignment for two weeks in Kenya. The nonprofit Inveneo helps to establish internet connections in some of the most remote areas of the world. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not only do people lack basic clean water and food, but they can also lack access to information that can easily save lives. (For example, Inveneo works to help those in the developing world have internet access, which in time will give them information regarding HIV\/AIDS and other health concerns.) With information technology, people everywhere can connect and take part in the competitive global market.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud that Matt is a part of this. For the next two weeks, I&#8217;ll explore life in Kenya and what&#8217;s really happening in this incredible country. It makes me feel more connected to him and what he&#8217;s doing, and I think it will be good to focus on one area for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the CNN report on what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inveneo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Inveneo<\/a> does here:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FKdCDEa4fHY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FKdCDEa4fHY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only has my boyfriend Matt started an exciting new job as a Project Engineer at Inveneo, but he just left to be on assignment for two weeks in Kenya. The nonprofit Inveneo helps to establish internet connections in some of the most remote areas of the world. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,30,12,35,9],"tags":[238,237,236,239],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-economics","category-education","category-god","category-malnutrition","category-north-america","tag-basic-human-rights","tag-information-technology","tag-inveneo","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Man Is Now in Kenya - Discoveries of a Wanderer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Man Is Now in Kenya - Discoveries of a Wanderer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not only has my boyfriend Matt started an exciting new job as a Project Engineer at Inveneo, but he just left to be on assignment for two weeks in Kenya. The nonprofit Inveneo helps to establish internet connections in some of the most remote areas of the world. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not only&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Discoveries of a Wanderer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-03-12T17:00:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jana Melpolder\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"My Man Is Now in Kenya - Discoveries of a Wanderer","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"My Man Is Now in Kenya - Discoveries of a Wanderer","og_description":"Not only has my boyfriend Matt started an exciting new job as a Project Engineer at Inveneo, but he just left to be on assignment for two weeks in Kenya. The nonprofit Inveneo helps to establish internet connections in some of the most remote areas of the world. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not only&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html","og_site_name":"Discoveries of a Wanderer","article_published_time":"2012-03-12T17:00:16+00:00","author":"Jana Melpolder","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html","name":"My Man Is Now in Kenya - Discoveries of a Wanderer","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-03-12T17:00:16+00:00","dateModified":"2012-03-12T17:00:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2012\/03\/my-man-is-now-in-kenya.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"My Man Is Now in Kenya"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/","name":"Discoveries of a Wanderer","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Jana Melpolder","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/#\/schema\/person\/ed4df2f4c08a1cb26b9e488226ab83af","name":"Jana Melpolder","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/author\/jmelpolder"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}