For any child leaving home, it is a challenging world to find a job when you have just qualified and have no commercial experience. When the children at CBCH leave home they have the added difficulty that jobs are very scarce in Kisumu and any job they are qualified for will have immense amounts of […]
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Each year 10% of African GDP is lost to corruption. Globally, it is thought to be 5% of GDP which is affected. Clearly it is higher in Africa than elsewhere but why do they get such a bad name when it is evident worldwide. Let’s think about North America. According to the BBC, it is […]
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‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us).’ Matthew 1.23 (ESV) ‘The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father’s only Son.’ John 1.14 […]
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Two years ago on this blog page we brought you news that The Kenyan Government were in the process of implementing a new model of care for children who have lost one or both parents called the Alternative Family Care programme. You can read the official details here:Alternative family care programme – Child Welfare Society […]
Read More »Two of our trustees Mike and Katherine Dare visited the CBCH home in Kisumu in September. It was the first time they had been for a while and so they wanted to catch up with lots of our friends, children and past children of the CBCH home whilst they were there. They certainly packed a […]
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We may have mentioned over the years about one of our trips to Kisumu in Kenya where we visiting the local Primary School which all the young Kisumu Children attend. We noticed one girl called Lillian with a large swelling that had closed her left eye. She was, at this time in 2013, in a […]
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4 miles a day on rough stony ground there is little remaining of our children’s shoes after a year at school “New school shoes every year for every child? Why?” I asked naively. “Surely they can be handed down to the younger ones at the end of the year like we do here in the […]
Read More »So it’s Summer, the sun is shining and you want to make the most of it! Why not do something small and make a huge difference to the lives of our wonderful children at the Home? Our trustee, Andrew Brinded, ran and finished the London Marathon to raise money “What can I do […]
Read More »Pamela, our fantastic Matron at the CBCH Home told me about her typical day. She clearly works very hard and is a mother figure to all of the children. From what we can all see, she keeps the home running like clockwork. Pamela gets herself up at around 4.30am and then gets the children up […]
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About a mile away from our Children’s Home in Kisumu, is the local Primary School where many of our children attend. During our last visit to Kenya in April 2018, we visited the school and were shown around by Alice, the Headmistress. At the time there were no classes in session, except for a teacher […]
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