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Kenya
Written by Michael Kane
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On the outskirts of Nairobi you will find Kibera, the largest slum in the whole of Africa. The LIFT team of eleven men and five women spent 3 hours walking around a small part of it on our first day in Kenya. Nothing can prepare you for the sights and smells of Kibera, mile after mile of tin clad mud huts, open sewers and rubbish littered everywhere, yet this was the home of over 1 million people.
We left Kibera feeling the sense of hopelessness but that was soon to be extinguished by the sight and sounds of hope as we entered Cheryl’s rescue centre. A local church established this rescue centre and 25 orphans are living in tin huts, they have clean cloths they go to school and they hear about the love our Saviour has for them. This same church wants to build an orphanage about 80 miles west of Nairobi near the town of Narok.
When the Imsi, the chief of the Masai, in this area heard that 16 people from Ireland were coming to help he gave ten acres to Cheryl’s for the orphanage. It would have cost £50,000 to buy the land.
After our experience in Kibera, we wanted to do as much as we could to get this orphanage started. With the help of Ed and Shirley Acheson, missionaries with AIM (Africa Inland Mission), who are from Portadown and who were our link with Cheryl’s the work began.
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