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One step closer to the dream
Check out our latest globalgiving page raising money to help Ombisa study to become a nurse. If you’ve been following Turning Point for a while, you may have heard of Ombisa before; he features in out testimonies video. Ombisa joined us in 2004 having had a tumultuous start to life. Despite this, he has taken hold [...]
Continue Reading >2012 A Unique Season for TPFC
Turning Point Football Club is getting ready for the 2012 season which usually features more than 80 clubs of different age categories from U-10, U-12, U-14 and U-17 from the vast Kibera slum. But unlike the previous seasons where the young lads have been toiling hard to get results, this season and hopefully subsequent years alot of [...]
Continue Reading >Campus Life
Sylvester is the first young man to have grown-up at Turning Point and gone on to university and we are so proud of his achievements. When I visited Sylvester last semester he seemed to be thriving in the academic environment. I was so impressed to hear how he has been making the most of having [...]
Continue Reading >Busting down the walls at holiday club
This December holiday club we’ve been exploring stigma, not a particularly Christmas-y message, in fact the theme draws us a lot closer to the Easter story, I’m sure Santa will get over it. This week the Turning Point Kids are thinking about the labels people put on each other, both good and bad. The Turning [...]
Continue Reading >Giving Children A Choice
The tagline written on the signboard outside our Mashimoni centre reads ‘Giving children a choice’. One boy in our project recently faced a very important choice. 11 year old Collins (not his real name) left the streets two years ago to join our Kianda project, after spending a year catching up in transition class he [...]
Continue Reading >Tricky Situations
Catching up with some of the TP teachers since the start of term, it has struck me just how tricky are some of the situations they face dealing with our kids. Each child is unique, they are experiencing very different problems and each deal with those issues in very different ways. Teacher Judy told me [...]
Continue Reading >…and the second week
Monday saw a tired but determined Kenyan and UK team returning to Machakos for another round of camps, we followed the same programme as the first week but with the older children. This is often a more rewarding week for the UK team as conversation is much easier with the kids who know more English, [...]
Continue Reading >Holiday camps first week
Its the middle weekend between week one and two of camps and the UK and Kenyan team are catching their breathe before we start again tomorrow morning. This past week we were with 85 kids aged between 7 and 12 putting on all sorts of entertainment and studying God’s word. There were a few new [...]
Continue Reading >Pray for camps
The 2011 holiday camps draw start this morning! So we would like to enlist the help of our praying supporters to bring the two-week extravaganza before the Lord in prayer. As we have prayed and sought God’s vision for the coming weeks, we feel that God wants to show the kids that He is with [...]
Continue Reading >From the streets to the lecture hall
“You have actually transformed my life from being a pessimistic man to optimistic one and now I can really foresee a great future.” writes Sylvester, TP’s first university student
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