NAIROBI, KENYA

NAIROBI, KENYA

January 28, 2010

NAKURU, KENYA

January 28, 2011

House of the Rising Stars is now home to 41 Children and 11 Staff members. Staff members participated in training sessions during the month of July. The new school/dormitory facility is almost finished, and the boys will move in on November 25th. Missionary work also took place at the Mother Theresa Centre in Nairobi.

In September, a conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association was held in Nairobi. From Canada, the following dignitaries attended:

The Honourable Charlie Parker, member of the Legislative Assembly in Pictou, Nova Scotia

Patricia Chaychuk, clerk for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Jerry Ouellette, MPP of Oshawa, ON

They visited Rising Stars, talked with and spent some time with our boys. We were honoured by their visit.

A visit to the Rising Stars in February and March was joyful and successful. There are now 54 children residing at Rising Stars. Most of them are between the ages of six and eight, which is younger than our average age.

The self-giving work of nine volunteers,6 locals and 3 from Europe, exceeded expectation and helped us achieve our goal of developing a local volunteering program. Several staff meetings (full staff meetings as well as meetings with individual staff members) took place to discuss and evaluate progress as well as suggest areas for improvement.

We thank the staff and volunteers for their willingness to accommodate the needs of our children and to serve them better.