Students return from Kenya powerless yet empowered
Eli election monitors observe voting in presidential race
Gazing at mile-long lines of voters on the day of last month’s presidential election in Kenya, Shazan Jiwa ’09 felt moved as voter after voter approached him to express their gratitude. Raising their ink-stained fingers to demonstrate that they had cast their ballot, voters voiced appreciation for the work of Jiwa and eight other Yale students who had come to Kenya to serve as election monitors.
“People would come up to election monitors and say ‘Thank you,’” Jiwa, a co-leader of the trip, said. “They were very receptive to us.”
On election day, the students said they...
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