Safety in Nairobi

Yesterday I met with the Security officer for World Vision Nairobi. Most of you know that I am a pretty adventurous traveller, and I like to fly by the seat of my pants. I have now officially had the fear of God put in me, and I am going to obey the rules while in Nairobi.

- There are car jackings. They happen in broad daylight. No unlocked doors, no stopping at all, no open windows. They drive you around taking money out of ATMs (which means no ATM card for me when I am out).
- There are armed robberies. Also in daylight. Neighborhood independent. Basically you give in and give them whatever material posession they want.
- I now know where to go if (God forbid), I am raped so that I don't contract AIDS as a result. I have 72 hours to get there to not get infected.
- Home invasions - well no wonder I need to haev 24 hour security and guards and CCTV all the time. Apparently this is a big issue.

Now, the up side is that NO ONE from World Vision has had any issues in the past 12 months, I think the last incident was in 2006, but still, these things apparently happen here. I am sure that they guy is trying to scare me, which has worked. Not paranoid, just for sure not going to do anything stupid.