Merry christmas everyone
From our small village in western kenya we wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year, more on the orphanage will follow soon. See you in 2010.
Month: december 2009
Zion Assembly Church of God
Nairobi. Kenya. December 13th, 2009The Zion Assembly Church of God invites us and our Kenyan friends to tell about 100 children about their rights not to be abused.
Apart from the workshop, we also provide a meal for the children.
NameZion Assembly Church of GodAimChildren's Rights Sensitizing and Sustainable Feeding ProgramSince2000Staff12 people ...
Apart from the workshop, we also provide a meal for the children.
NameZion Assembly Church of GodAimChildren's Rights Sensitizing and Sustainable Feeding ProgramSince2000Staff12 people ...
december 6. Going to Church.
A lazy sunday morning. Then we go to church together. Four boys walking through the sunny streets of Kayole with bibles under their arms. I feel it would make a good picture, and it also reminds me of the... Beatles.
In the afternoon I decide to work in the cybershop to tell my ...
In the afternoon I decide to work in the cybershop to tell my ...
december 5. One thing involved.
In downtown Nairobi there are several coffee places offering wifi. I find one after a quest in which I fail to show patience. I get my stuff done anyway.
This is a variation to an HIV awareness talk for adolescents:
If you sleep with someone, there are two things involved: either you protect ...
This is a variation to an HIV awareness talk for adolescents:
If you sleep with someone, there are two things involved: either you protect ...
december 4. Clubbin’
We are all lazy. We get up late. We have a long breakfast. I borrow the book "enduring love" by Ian Mc. Ewan and start to read it. I also manage to write the stories of the last few days sitting at home with my laptop in my lap. I again apologize for the English ...
December 3. Sensitizing and Awareness in a slum school
Today, we repeat what we did yesterday in Duncan's school. He comes to pick us up with his rickety minivan (later he'll tell me he sold his fancy car to build up the school) and we drive to an other part of the city, to a slum with streets of mud and shacks made of ...
Vision for the lost souls ministries
Vision for the lost souls, NairobiNairobi, Kenya. December 7th, 2009The Vision for the Lost Souls orphanage in Nairobi is well managed and has received considerable media attention. The director is also supporting a school in Ciongombé.
We hold a sensitizing session for 187 kids and show them a movie with our pocket projector.
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We hold a sensitizing session for 187 kids and show them a movie with our pocket projector.
December 2. Joy Valley. Famined orphans.
After a good night's sleep, we start right away, sensitizing in an orphanage called Joy Valley in a slum called Soweto after the South African province. What is the difference between a slum and the house I am living here, at walking distance from Soweto? Slums have semi-permanent buildings made of iron plates, no electricity, ...
Joy Valley Orphanage
Joy Valley is a struggling extremely poor orphan home and informal school in a slum area of Nairobi. Children are underfed, the school is treatened with closure by the government. We visit the orphan home several times, sensitize the children, and support money for sustainable income generation: a chicken coop, a sewing machine. Jared Otieno ...