By Edith Murogo | Project Leader
Greetings from Nairobi, Kenya!
We are growing! I wish to take this oppportunity to share with you the news that this year we moved to a bigger faccility within the same vicinity of Kikuyu, which is part of the Nairobi metropolis. The shelter sits on approximately 0.4 ha of land complete with 2 big housing units that house the living room, dormitory, guest room, kitchen, bathrooms and other rooms. The compound is large and has space to keep chicken and cows. In addition, we have a big garden for growing maize, nappier grass and vegetables. Because of your support, we have been able to expand from a relatively medium sized facility to a large compound complete with a garden and perimeter fence which enhances our security.
Our new shelter is an answered prayer. We have been yearning to have a faccility with more space to accomodate all our activities, ie dining, recreation, income generation activities, classrooms, laundry etc. the former shelter was a little squeezed and did not leave much room for expansiion. The girls like it here and enjoy playing outside and sitting on the beautiful grass. They also enjoy their kitchen garden and learn how to grow vegetables. Our chicken provide eggs for breakfast and the cow gives us milk.
It is our dream that one day we can own land and construct a faccility of our own. What do you think? But before we get there, we are happy to be at our new location. The new faccility has made our work easier and given room for expansion. We shall now be able to serve more needy cases with more confidence because our capacity has doubled from 24 to 50 beds!
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