Thursday We get a call from the lady in Dagoretti Market who is supposed to be organising the deworming. She is hysterical. The elders of the village want to burn her, she says. They have said she is bringing the Devil (me) to poison the children. In an interesting twist, they also claim I am...Read More

DAY ONE FRIDAY A new family has arrived at DECIEP, Felista Kibe’s wonderful openhearted rescue and refuge home for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children in Waithake, Nairobi. Their story is as common in Kenya as typhoid in the rainy season.  Their mother died of AIDS and their father abandoned them. They were helped by a...Read More