John is 11 years old and has a younger sister of 10 months. He was born prematurely and put in the nursery. He was diagnosed with meningitis at the age of 4 months. He later started convulsions. He has cerebral palsy and has limited mobility. He cannot feed himself, walk, sit without assistance. He eats […]
Archives for March 2018
Kibera School is Growing!
Today Mwololo and I visited our students at Little Sky School in Kibera. The school has grown to over 230 students PreSchool through Grade 2. More kids to teach, more mouths to feed. Here are a couple of pics of students in Grades 1 and 2. After meeting the students, we headed downtown to buy […]
18 Home Visits and Counting
Social Workers from the O Center for Children continue to conduct home visits in the Machakos County area. Eighteen families have been identified as caring for a child or children with developmental disabilities and require some sort of assistance. Some of these children have never been properly diagnosed. Some suffer additionally from malnutrition while some […]
Alfonse and Anthony
Alfonse 6 years and his younger brother Anthony who is 4 years were born with many problems. Both have period bouts with pneumonia. Malaria is also a common ailment. They are in and out of hospital but their parents are too poor to afford a 100 shilling fare to take them for physiotherapy exercises. They […]