Lunchtime at Makindu Children’s Center

Shoes Needed – Kamboo Primary School

In Kamboo we visited a primary school.It has 7 teachers for almost 500 students. After speaking with the head teacher I was given permission to photograph in the school. Children are packed in tight, but get along well with one another. Before I left Iwas asked for two things.  First, could they please receive shoes for the children.Second,  he asked [...]

Kamboo Village

Makindu Children’s Center also serves the needs of the outlying communities of Kamboo and Twaandu. I was taken to visit Kamboovia a 30 minute ride on a motorcycle over dirt roads, then paths.Other than visitors, Kamboo has a few motorcycles.Those who are fortunate have bicycles. There’s no electricity or piped water for miles.The village is a series of remotely separated [...]

Makindu Children’s Center – What it’s All About

Makindu Children’s Center functions as a community resource facility, providing training and guidance in nutritional, agricultural, and health concerns, including HIV/AIDS education and awareness.MCC isdedicated to empowering those they serve, helping them become independent, self sufficient, and valued contributing members of society. The program is a day resource facility, where children can come for food, bathing, recreation, and emotional and [...]

Thank You Kenya!

Kenyan Poster for Obama THANK YOU KENYA!

Makindu Childrens Center – Kenya

On the main road between Nairobiand the port city of Mombasa, is the town of Makindu – population 15,000. The economy relies on scarcely more than business from trucksferrying goods toand from the port.Makindu is hot, flat, and exceptionally arid.Seasonal rains, meager in the best of times,have failed completely this year.Crops planted last October, wither in the red soil.Corn should [...]