Kenya

The power of kindness amongst the youth of the “Kamiti” juvenile prison

Stephen, representing the Gen and Youth for a United World of Kenya’s Focolares, narrates the amazing adventure of solidarity and kindness, born at the Kamiti Youth Correctional Center of Nairobi. Nairobi, Kenya. It is a Saturday in the month of...

Kenya: That different culture that made me fall in love. Isabele’s MilONGa Volunteering experience

By Janeth Cárdenas Belmonte Isabele Amorim tells us about her “journey” from Brazil to Kenya, to live a volunteering experience that makes her discover the beauty of diversity and of dialogue amongst different people. Isabele Amorim de Deus Pires is...

Seeds of hope in northern Kenya, a project that leaves no one behind

Augustine Lenamoi founded the Northern Pastoralists Youth Development Organization (NPYDO) in Marsabit, Kenya, an organization completely run by young people, with the aim of improving the social and economic conditions of the local community through development projects. Leaving no one...

Global citizenship education is the key to progress on Global Goals

By Conleth Burns The NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, Monday, September 14, organized a webinar: “The voice of NGOs: global citizenship to stimulate inclusion and diversity”. Among the speakers were Fidelia and Audrey, representatives of Teens4Unity, an affiliate member of New Humanity....

Happy to be a mother

By Giovanna Pieroni Giovanna Pieroni of AFN (Azione per Famiglie Nuove onlus) tells the story of Millycent, a support worker at a project run by the Association in Mathare, Nairobi. Having just given birth to a daughter, she overcomes the...

Kenya: Refugees seeing the future

By Stefania Tanesini. Insights from Congolese journalist Liliane Mugombozi, currently based in the Focolare centre in Nairobi. She works at the Jesuit Refugee Service in the Kenyan capital: “African migrants? The majority are not going to Europe but are moving...

A Franciscan is the best teacher in the world

by James Mwania. Brother Peter Tabichi, a Kenyan Franciscan teacher from a remote village in Kenya who teaches in a secondary school has won the annual 2019 Varkey Foundation Global Prize in a ceremony held in Dubai. A mathematics and...

“Together for a new Africa”: the first course in Nairobi

January 2019. In the Focolare’s little town near Nairobi (Kenya) over 100 young people from 7 countries met for a training for leadership course. Read the article “Together for a new Africa”: the first course in Nairobi...

“Together for a new Africa”: the first course in Nairobi

By James Mwania. The first leaders for peace and unity in Africa training on the project “Together for a New Africa” for young African leaders bringing together 105 participants from East and central Africa has just ended in Nairobi with...

Asante Africa 2018

By Sergio Brena. A fraternal volunteer adventure in Kenya. The Fazenda da Esperanza and the Turkana region. Asante (thank you) is certainly the first word in Swahili that you learn coming to Kenya, and the young people who came this...

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