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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When our own children leave home we hope that we have prepared them with enough wisdom, morals and social awareness to survive and secure a strong footing in the world. We are ready to support them emotionally and financially where we can to help them get on to the metaphorical ‘ladder’. When our children from […]
Read More »If, like most of us at Kisumu Children, you believe in education as the way to break the cycle of poverty for our children, the title of this post may lead you to jump up in excitement that our children suddenly have access to the massive opportunity of interactive and modern learning techniques that we […]
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We have been preparing to welcome two new children into CBCH to join the family and we’re pleased to say that they have now arrived safely and have settled in. Like all of our children, their story is one of great sadness but are stories which need to be told not just to help us […]
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