In July 2017, Don and Brenda Gibson who are members of Village of Love Canada, visited Kijiji cha Upendo Children’s project in Kibera to spend time with the beneficiaries and witness the impact of the work the…
In September 2016, Kijiji Cha Upendo was delighted to receive Allan Beverage from village of love Canada; He visited to spend time with the beneficiaries and see the impact of the work the organization does to the…
The Effects of COVID-19The Corona virus has caused untold suffering on many Kenyans especially the ones living in the informal settlements like Kibera. Hot on the heels of the such calamities as the floods and the locust…
Kijiji Cha Upendo Children over the August school holiday received an interesting visitor, Laura Rossall from Canada who came to spend some time with them. This was interesting time since over the holiday children stay idle and…
Kijiji Cha Upendo Children over the August school holiday received an interesting visitor, Laura Rossal from Canada who came in to spend some time with them. This was interesting time since over the holiday children stay idle…
KIJIJI CHA UPENDO CHILDREN’S PROJECT COMPUTER LITERACY CLASS A number of KCU youth beneficiaries attended the first computer literacy class organized by Kijiji. The Children were delighted in the program and expressed gratitude. Computer knowledge is very…
Kijiji has interacted more with the caregivers and has had limited interaction with children. The interaction has been through school and home visits. However, there has been a need to get all the children together in regular…
KIJIJI CHA UPENDO CHILDREN PROJECT SYLVIA MORRISON VISIT REPORT Sylvia Morrison visited the Kijiji Cha Upendo children project from 9th June to 14th June 2017. As a scholar, her main interest was improving the education standards of…
Kibera (photo courtesy of Colin Crowley) Last month Jennifer and I made the trek to Nairobi for a week of work with a CAP-AIDS Uganda partner organisation, Kijiji Cha Upendo (KCU) – Swahili for Village of Love.…
Wow, it has been a busy, exciting, and fun week here in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s definitely a big change in scenery in comparison to the quiet country-life of Lira. This week, I traveled 6 hours overnight to…
Kibera: A Love Story By Jennifer Cleary of Humber College, Toronto, Canada. Peeking behind the curtain to reveal humanity at its best We drive through the Kibera slum, along seemingly impassable dirt paths without any greenery, to…
I was recently lucky enough to be sent to Nairobi for a week to work with Kijiji Cha Upendo, a community-based organization (and partner to the CAP Network) that is located in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya. This was…
The Kenya Red Cross JKUAT Chapter has achieved another milestone in its noble cause of alleviating human suffering and poverty. On Saturday 2nd April 2016, the Chapter successfully forged a working partnership agreement with their long term…
Tracy Khakali, the fifth born in a family of seven children, was brought up by her late single mother from the age of seven. “It was a very long journey fraught with difficulties” she says. Her mother,…
My trip to Kibera was a great learning experience for me. For the past year, I have been volunteering in Toronto, Canada, for a group called Village of Love Canada (www.villageoflovecanada.org) whose purpose is to raise funds…
The JKUAT Red Cross chapter on the first weekend of April, 2016 made a noble initiative of reaching out to Kijiji cha Upendo Children’s home in Kibera. The initiative was geared towards donating various basic requirements to…
Leah Atieno, KCU Social Worker, borrowed a leaf from her neighborhood group where each member carries a bar of washing soap and a Kilogramme of sugar to the meeting. The items are shared amongst two of the…
Kijiji cha upendo is planning for a bicycle ride within Nairobi.It will be a major event and the first of its own kind since the inception of the kijiji cha upendo children’s project.This initiative is geared towards…
SUPPORT OUR WORK When you support Kijiji Cha Upendo as a donor, you help to build a brighter future for orphans and vulnerable children. By providing peer support, micro-loans for development of sustainable livelihoods along with school…
This is a post from Robin Way, an intern working with one of our Canadian partner organizations – the CAP/AIDS Network – who visited the Kijiji Cha Upendo Children’s Project: I spent the last week on a…
The distribution of school fees provides a grand occasion to invite local government officials, and to celebrate the workers and caregivers! It is an occasion for speeches, information sharing and general praise and encouragement for KCU. With…