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I remember being at Boarding School in England, and how Christmas always felt like a lifetime away, Whether it is my age now, or just enjoying life more I don’t know, but Christmas seems to be coming around much faster than I remember.

Here we are a couple of months later, and we have not only managed to re-build our bridge (a few feet higher) but also re-do our entire Swimming Pool, Bar and Pizza Oven area.

Here in Kenya, the word “Harambee” is a unique word for a concept that applies more and more as we get older. It means, “Let Us All Pull Together” and is used to get a community to fund-raise or combine efforts in some project which will help those less fortunate in society.

Salim Amin is not only a trustee of the Ethical journalist network and Chairman of Camerapix, but is also the son of the late great Mohamed Amin whose images captured key moments in Kenya’s history.

As a child I was in boarding school in the Rift Valley from the age of nine and I remember how time seemed to last forever and going home appeared to be years away.

The drought over the last few months has caused immeasurable suffering to the wildlife not only in the national park, but also other parts of the country.

We are at the end of another year, and as I grow older these years seem to fly by.

On the 11th of March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. What happened over the next two years was beyond comprehension.

And so the extraordinary year of 2020 has finally drawn to a close. I have never been so happy to see the end of one year.