Kenya with the Giraffe Project

In July of 2007 we traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to work with the Giraffe Project (see http://www.giraffeproject.org/).  The Giraffe project is run by friends, Richard and Denise Baines, and it supports a number of schools in the Nairobi slums via scholarships for the students, fundraising for building projects (new buildings, establishment of safe water supplies, etc), feeding programs, and establishment of vocational educational programs.

While there we worked primarily with four schools - Green Pastures (a primary school in the Kibera slum), Tumaini (a primary school in the Mathare slum), Kao la Tumaini (a primary and secondary school in the Mathare slum), and Enna (a secondary school for girls).  Mark worked primarily to help set up computer rooms in the various schools (we had ~80 computers donated from a variety of sources) while Karen met with a number of the students and their families and helped gathering additional scholarship applications.

Our family with the children we support
In the back - Judith (at Enna), Karen, Maureen (at Green Pastures), Esther (at Enna), Mark
In front - Cliff (at Green Pastures), Lydia, and John



The crew at Green Pastures for the opening of the computer center
Front row - John, Lydia, Savannah, Annelie
Middle row - Timmy, Hannah, Stephanie, Nicola
Back row - Carolyn, Rachel, Karen, Denise, Richard, Mark



The crew at dinner.  We were staying at the house of a missionary family who were traveling.
Starting in the front left, going clockwise - Lindsey, Carolyn, Rachel, Nicola, Karen, Denise, Richard, Dawn, Mark, Gavin, James.
The kids were sitting on the floor in the living room (probably watching TV!)



It is hard to visit Kenya and not come back a different person...

See where we went
Learn more about Green Pastures
Learn more about Kibera
Learn more about Enna
Learn more about Tumaini
Learn more about the women's beadcraft group
Learn more about Kao la Tumaini
See scenes of Kenya - animal park, Mr Mutinda's family, our last day
See the people we worked with
Camping back in Belgium

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