by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 30, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Thoughts
If you’re a facebooker and follow the Karibu Centre posts or see my status updates then you will know that on Monday we got the devastating news that one of our vulnerable pregnant moms had a nonviable baby. She was 40 weeks when she got the diagnosis, a day...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Sep 1, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kids
Lucy will be 3 in a about 2 weeks. She’s at the stage where everything she thinks comes out of her mouth (I guess some people never get out of that stage). Today her winner comments both had to do with Esther our househelp. The first, announced to the whole...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Aug 29, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Thoughts
So, it looks like the stork that was stalking me had the wrong target. The “real” stork made a real visit to Karibu Centre this last week though. We welcomed our the first baby to one of our vulnerable young pregnant women this week, and what a week it...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Aug 20, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya
You know how in the states you just assume that any kid who is NOT potty trained is pretty much in diapers or some type of equivalent? Silly me for assuming that such would be the case here! I guess in the program planning here we (or at least I) didn’t...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jul 15, 2009 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Uncategorized
Last week Ian got to leave mid day for a meeting in Nairobi and then hopefully to pick up Megan from the airport. Since her plane was delayed, so was he, and he just hadto spend the night in Nairobi at the home of friends. He called me that night to check in on me...