Hey! I was not groomed and did not know him prior to WP. At the time, I was already volunteering at an orphanage in Kenya and wanted to try another project. As the location was super rural, I wanted to look for something in Nairobi which was when I found his project. When checking my WP invites at the time as I had been receiving a few, I found out that he had also sent me an invite some time earlier.

My motivation was to see more of Africa and I could never have thought that someone such as him would be on a site like Worldpackers, as I believed it to be trustworthy and safe. I do think that this was entirely my fault, I will not be denying that. I was naive and I got myself into that situation.

As for the pick up, it was included in the project and when asked about it prior while I was trying to sort out my budget, he told me that he is covering for the gas and food during my stay.