Join us on Facebook!
Nakeel Primary School in Ongata Rongai is a crowded school, with 1,600 pupils. With just one 10,000 liter water tank, theschool is bound to have water problems. Ongata Rongai is in the outskirts of Nairobi, within Kajiado District, where CMA’s arid and semi-arid upgrading programs run. Rainfall is little and erratic in this area, making [...]
Yesterday was a memorable day for all of us at CMA. Joined by our friends and partners, we visited Cancer patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital, and shared love and food with residents of Kuwinda Slum, to honor God and celebrate the exemplary life of our late founder and director, Larry Kitchel.
Ever wondered what we did for the Kenyan families that were affected by drought and famine last year? Thanks to donors and friends like you who responded to our call for relief. With your support, we were able to feed nearly 27,000 families living in some of the worst hit areas in Kajiado and Machakos Districts.
The red soil is sun scorched and as light as air. Even the slightest wind ruffles it up. It settles on everything like brown dew. The few thorn trees and brushes stretch out their skeletal limbs up to the big African sky as if begging for water from the empty white clouds. The small grey [...]
By Tony Were She is short and dark and her emaciated frame is painful to look at. Her dress hangs loosely on her skinny shoulders exposing her jutting collar bones. She is standing outside her crumbling house with four of her five children and a grand daughter. They are all wearing tattered clothing, including the [...]
The social-economic differences between the children and youth playing on the field were vast. Sixty of them are growing up in some of the poorest and roughest slums in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The other 40 have never known what it is like to lack a meal or shelter. The only thing that gave away their [...]
By Agnes Takaa When Nyalup Jel, 36, was brought into the Darjo clinic in April this year, I could tell that she had labored for very long. She writhed in pain from the makeshift stretcher where she lay. Her husband and six male neighbors had carried her from their home in Gambella Village, a whole [...]
Jacklina stands by the older lady like a bodyguard. Dutiful and committed, she whispers gently and takes her mother by the elbow to guide her around. Jacklina’s eyes dart back and forth the older lady’s face, keen to register any reactions and possible discomfort; a daughter’s love for her mother. Her widowed mother, Aguek Nyuol, [...]
It is only 8AM but the sun already feels too warm on the skin. It’s definitely going to be another hot day in this remote and secluded village in South Sudan. A handful of children are streaming into school; others coming along with herds of cows. That is a normal occurrence here. Many children spend [...]
Watch an introduction to the ministry of CMA >
