After a well-deserved half an hour of a lie in, we made our way to the Nyumbani Children’s Home. It was great to see the children that we had made friends with on the first day. We took the Montessori class out for a morning adventure to the Elephant Orphanage in Karen. Despite the distractions [...]

Happy Valentines Day! Today, in particular, we’ve been thinking of the people we love at home, who mean so much to us. Though we’ve been as busy as ever, we still miss you. The past two days have been very different from what we’ve seen so far; we left rural Kenya and got our first [...]

Jambo! Yesterday, we all had the very different experience of waking up in the village feeling very dirty and tired…we learned that baby wipes didn’t quite compare to the hot shower in our hotel. However, our morning was quickly brightened up by the delicious mandazis served for breakfast, which could be compared to sugary doughnuts [...]

This morning we set off once again to Nyumbani Village, lunchboxes full of stolen breakfast buffet goods for the workers. LOL. After a mornings hard work, we took refuge in the local shop. The break soon became one of the highlights of the trip so far when the ShuShus started a flashmob ‘Kenyan Style’! All [...]

Habari! (how’s it going!) We would like to offer our sincerest apologies for our lack of output yesterday; we were simply having too much fun!  We’ve had a very busy, very enjoyable two days, and have even managed to work on our tans’.  Much to our dismay we are as pale and pasty as ever! [...]

Waaja! (response: aah) Today we began our first day of work in the Nyumbani village. We left the hotel weary eyed and exhausted at 8am but the morning was soon brightened up with the lovely letter we were surprised with from Ellie and Ailish, not to mention the scorching hot Kenyan sun! We were broken [...]

Vipi, Wewe, hapa!! After a stressful start to the journey, from the chaos of checking in 53 bags for 18 people, to the disappointment of realising that the first class seats weren’t ours, we eventually arrived in Nairobi airport. No thanks to the teachers who obviously couldn’t handle the 3am start and who “didn’t hear” [...]

Holy Child Killiney have committed to participate in the HCK African Immersion Programme culminating in a visit to the Nyumbani Children’s Project in Kenya during February 2012.  Up to now the girls have been working with great enthusiasm on the fundraising and spiritual aspects of their preparations but are now ready to embark on the next [...]