by Nicole Peck | Jun 24, 2020 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
When you went into COVID-19 lockdown, maybe you started fearing for your health, job security or food supply. After all, we didn’t know what it would mean for us. But you probably never once feared that you would be beaten. Or chased out of your town. Or attacked in...
by Nicole Peck | Jun 22, 2020 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Just as our world was shutting down and closing its doors in April, a new Drop-In Centre in Kenya was doing the exact opposite. It seemed like perfect timing that a safe place of care and support was opening up to street boys at a time when they would become even more...
by Nicole Peck | Sep 9, 2019 | Bungoma, Explore Trip, KCM, Partner & Project Blogs |
By Milton Young My journey to Africa was one I’ll never forget. I saw Africa in all its beauty, but also its immense poverty. There are many people who will stay with me forever, but I can’t seem to get the face of a woman called Prossie out of my mind. We came across...
by Nicole Peck | Apr 8, 2019 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Earning $5 a day might not seem like a lot to us, but for George, it’s enough to radically change his life. His father left the family years ago and his troubled mother couldn’t care for him, so George left home and decided that street life was a better option. It’s...
by Nicole Peck | Sep 11, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
Who would have thought a ball and net would rally Bungoma’s youth and give them a vision for their future? Bungoma’s street boys spend their days searching for food and just ‘surviving’, which means there’s no time to play games or enjoy life. But our partner,...
by Nicole Peck | Jun 19, 2018 | Bungoma, Partner & Project Blogs |
When I first met Steven*, he was sitting on the railway tracks, wearing a pink puffer vest. He instantly jumped up the moment he saw me leaning out the window with my phone. He rushed up to the car waving a piece of paper at me. It was a grubby little brown envelope...