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Kibera Diet Challenge: Day 1
Today we begin the Kibera Diet Challenge. The rules of the challenge are: #1 You may only eat foods from the Kibera Diet Recipe Book #2 When cooking you can only use one burner on your stove #3 You may not use fridge storage for the the 5 days #4 You may not use a [...]
Continue Reading >March Food Month
It is March! This month we are focussing on food leading up to the Kibera Diet Challenge which is running from the 19th to the 23rd March. Why focus on food? Because its one of the most basic but significant factors in our work at Turning Point. Firstly, hunger is often the main reason kids [...]
Continue Reading >We’ve come a long long way together…
In 2002 Turning Point was registered as a UK Charity. On 030303 work began in Kibera. 2004 saw the first TP kids starting school and transition class began. In 2005 we had our first Holiday Camp…
Continue Reading >Get familiar
Two weeks ago I was on site for the new centre in Laini Saba. At lunch time I decided to check in on a small shanty hotel known as ’Fresh Lake Hotel’. It is at this hotel that most day-time street kids in Laini Saba come to have their lunch after their hard days work either after selling scrap [...]
Continue Reading >Feeling hungry?
Walking out of Kibera today, I passed somebody carrying a bundle of what looked like white(ish) roots on his head. “What are they?” I asked Peter. “Ogombo” he informed me. “They use for cleaning their teeth. Also, they use it to increase their appetite.” I pondered this – isn’t there already enough hunger in Kibera, [...]
Continue Reading >Justice in Kibera
While walking through Kibera yesterday with Peter, our ‘security’, a car stopped just in front of us. The streets in Kibera are narrow, and we had to squeeze to get past the three men who got out of the car. Cars in Kibera aren’t that unusual, but it was an odd place they had chosen [...]
Continue Reading >Turning Point’s next target
Turning point is set to open a new center in Laini Saba, one of the 10 villages in the vast Kibera slum. Research carried out has identified a couple of areas of specific need in this area, that the new center will focus on: daytime street kids, and prostitution amongst young girls. But let me [...]
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