by DIAS-Admin | Sep 8, 2020 | KCM, Partner & Project Blogs |
Last month, the Weema Clinic celebrated its first birth since opening. The delivery was urgent, and despite lack of equipment and resources at the clinic, the team was able to deliver a healthy baby. The baby’s mother was a child whom KCM rescued from sexual abuse by...
by DIAS-Admin | Sep 8, 2020 | KCM, Partner & Project Blogs |
Frontline workers in Kyampisi have reported that the incidence of abuse (which includes rape, paedophilia, domestic violence and trafficking) has sharply risen during COVID-19. There has also been an increase in witchcraft-related child abductions and sacrifices, with...
by DIAS-Admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Nateete, Partner & Project Blogs |
The team had just visited a home in Nateete’s slums with food, soap and school supplies, when instantly a father started sobbing in front of his children, tears streaming down his face. The last three months has been one of the most challenging times for families...
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 DIAS-Admin | Apr 3, 2020 | KCM, Partner & Project Blogs |
By Dr Geoff Mitchell, DIAS Pioneer Back in 2010, I found myself sitting next to a young man called Peter Sewakiryanga while on a plane returning from South Africa. It was a chance meeting that really was ‘meant to be’ because the airline made an error and I was seated...