This is the America I used to know…..I want it back

It’s a simple, feel-good local story you’ve probably heard told many times before:  a couple of Americans on a mission trip to Kenya, come across a child with some birth defect and it tugs at their heart.
At first hesitant, they snap a photo with the child, return back to their home-base, talk to friends, colleagues, [...]

Kenyan refugees in Uganda fear returning back home

Even though a coalition government has been formed back home and refugees in camps all over Kenya are returning home, Joseph Maina along with 12,000 other refugees are wary. In fact, approximately 2,000 Kenyans have moved further inland into Uganda and settled in permanent camps.BBC Story

Medical: Low cost meningitis vaccine developed

source: IRIN AfricaOUAGADOUGOU, 4 March 2008 (IRIN) – A new low-cost and highly effective meningitis vaccine will be introduced in 2009 as trials in West Africa proved successful, the head of the project said in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou.

Small Humanitarian organisations with missions and projects in Kenya

UPDATE: OCTOBER 6, 2008 – I put this list together back in January when our country was in a crisis. From the stats I see that it is still very useful to many readers. Please let me know if a link no longer works or is invalid. If you need to more information or need [...]

You can help Western Kenya directly right now

Blogger Kenyan Patriot is reporting that those who want to help the western part of the country can do so right now. Please read the details here.He says that this is an organization started by someone he knows personally and is able to verify that the funds are reaching western kenya and doing some good [...]