Medical Exams

May 10, 2012 - 0 comments

During the months of April and October of each year, we conduct complete medical exams for all our children and orphanage caretakers. Last month, we hosted medical teams in both Molo and Maralal, reviewing 198 children and 56 adults. We had a few children who attend secondary school unable to return home for the exams. [...]

Jackson Kairu

May 3, 2012 - 3 comments

This blog was written by Project82 child Jackson Kairu himself. Elishiba Muthoni (Social Worker- Maralal) typed it for him and did a few grammatical corrections. Here is the story he wanted to share with you.    My Life: By Jackson Kairu My name is Jackson Kairu. I was born in 1998. As a young child [...]

World Malaria Day – The Statistic of a Kenyan Child

April 26, 2012 - 0 comments

As I reflect this day, World Malaria Day, I cannot help but consider our children in Kenya. Malaria in Kenya is an everyday occurrence, and it  strikes predominately in rural areas with the greatest burden falling on lower income families. One of the wonder’s about the work that we do is that we are faced with [...]

Phoebe’s hometown

March 29, 2012 - 1 comments

Today was such an honor to visit two communities in the Njeri region north of Nairobi. Njeri is the central region, a center for tea and coffee production and ever near Mount Kenya. Tambaya is the hometown of our Kenyan Child Advocate, Phoebe. We visited the primary school she attended as a child where we [...]

Masai Mara

March 29, 2012 - 1 comments

We flew early from Maralal to Masai Mara, known to many as home to the Serengetti and the Great Migration of wildebeests, zebras and gazelles that occurs annually. During the flight from northern Kenya to the southwest corner of the country, we saw the awesome beauty of Gods creation from dusty dry bushlands, to rich [...]