Women's Empowerment Meeting

Canadian Volunteers Ali Higgins and Memona Hossain share their account of a visit to a Women’s Empowerment Meeting in Kibera, led by Kijiji Cha Upendo Volunteers.

Women’s Empowerment Meeting

For full message, scroll down. “What is the definition of a child?”

This is the question that opens the discussion at this particular  Women’s Empowerment workshop. Immediately the women proceed to discuss the issue. They speak with confidence, wisdom and insight….

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They Are Known As "The Family That Helps"

Andrew and Leonora Obara on a recent visit to Toronto. Leonora is the volunteer programme administrator for Kijiji Cha Upendo and Andrew is the volunteer administrator.

The Kibera and Nairobi community knows the Obaras’ front door as belonging to “The Family That Helps.”

Any time of the day or night people will knock on the Obaras’ door bringing their needs: to be taken to hospital, to find help for an orphaned or vulnerable child, to find a safe place to stay. The list of needs are endless, and the Obaras’ door and hearts are open to all who come knocking. 

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Paul Waldie, Globe & Mail, "Giving Back," Dec 9, 2011

Kenyan AIDS project feels the love from Canadian congregation

Andrew and Leonora Obara, parents of fifteen children, ten adopted orphaned children and five biological, spoke with Globe and Mail journalist Paul Waldie on their recent trip to Toronto.In Paul Waldie’s article for the Globe and Mail column, “Giving Back,” Waldie tells how the “Village of Love” Project grew out of one congregation’s support for one couple caring for AIDS - orphaned children.

The Donors: Leonora and Andrew Obara

The Gift: Creating Village of Love

The Cause: Caring for AIDS orphans in Kenya

When Leonora Obara started adopting AIDS orphans into her home in Nairobi, Kenya, her family wondered how they would cope.

Leonora and her husband Andrew already had five children, a modest income and a tiny house. Caring for five young orphans… read more