End of Ramadan

Yesterday was a special date:the Eid,  the most important day of the Muslim calendar. And the occasion deserved it: after one month of fasting, the muslim community was already free to eat and drink at any moment of the day. Ramadan is one of the 5 pillar of the Islam (with the pilgrimage to Meca, the profession of the faith, praying and alms), and the end of this period is the most important celebration for them. Hence, it was a pretty special day in the Kenyan coast, where most people profess the Islamic faith and, in the case of the island where I live, almost everybody.
Sean (on of the GVI community workers) and I were kindly invited by Juma, one of the askaris (watchmen in swahili) of GVI, to celebrate this festivity with him and his (enormous) family. It was an amazing experience, and for sure not one you can live many times in your live being a Westerner. I was welcomed by the relatives of Juma, all of them dressing their best clothes, and by the crowd of kids in the family, eat traditional Swahili food in the traditional way (a.k.a.: with your bare right hand, being impolite to use the left one) sat in the ground in Juma's house. A dinner to remember!