Turning Point Trust Blog
A Holiday in Karen
Last week the wonderful people of Christ Church Woking blessed us by enabling our staff to go on a retreat in the leafy Nairobi suburbs of Karen, and by sending a team from the church to lead the retreat. The week consisted of much laughter and joy, as well as, or rather, induced by daily [...]
Continue Reading >A new term
Today was the first day of term two, this academic year. Our Transition classes were open again after the holidays and the compound was filled with the chatter of school children. We currently have 22 children studying in Transition, split between our centres in Kianda and Mashimoni villages of Kibera. By the end of last [...]
Continue Reading >Writing the story
Most stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. Sometimes the beginnings are hard to get started. The idea of the beginning may swirl around but be hard to capture. Hard to actually take the first step of beginning…the beginning. Sometimes, the middles are long and drawn out. They seem to last a lifetime and [...]
Continue Reading >What’s it like?
Yesterday I met with my uncle’s business partner who in Nairobi for a few days of meetings and had kindly agreed to bring me some things from the UK. We sat shaded from the hot African sun next to a blue pool in the leafy gardens of Fairview hotel and as I sipped fresh juice, he [...]
Continue Reading >Hope for 2013
Well with the primary nominations being held, I feel I should be writing something clever and political about it all. But to be honest, despite having had it explained to me several times, I don’t really understand it all so I’ll leave that blog to someone with a little more political nonce than me. In [...]
Continue Reading >Advent Calendar Resource
The Christmas lights are beginning to be put up in shopping malls around Nairobi, last week we released our alternative Christmas gift catalogue (click here to download it) and today we have an exciting new resource for you all to download: the DIY Turning Point advent calendar! It’s time to get into the Christmas spirit! [...]
Continue Reading >The Future Generation
The Turning Point compound holds some of the future of Kenya. The next generation. The noise-makers, policy-breakers, the nation-wakers. The radicals and the transformers. The ones who can bring peace. The ones who can bring change. Can fight tribalism. Can fight corruption. Heck, could end tribalism. Could end corruption. Imagine. Kenya is crying out for [...]
Continue Reading >A Walk Through Kibera
When taking visitors into Kibera, Peter (our security) often likes to take them on a short detour along the railway track that runs through the middle of the slum. Walking along the track, there’s a point where you can see between the shacks down into the valley where our centre at Mashimoni village is in [...]
Continue Reading >Getting creative at Laini Saba
Our centre at Laini Saba (a village in Kibera) runs a bit differently to our other centres in Mashimoni and Kianda. The centre acts more as a safe space for older youth to drop-in and hang out. Each morning pastor David leads a short devotions, which is followed by tea and mandazi. After this, the [...]
Continue Reading >News from Kianda
We’re excited to have finally bought some land adjoining our centre at Kianda. Hopefully the land will eventually be used to build another classroom and office so we can begin to run Transition class. This means children from Kianda won’t have to make the 45 minute walk across to Mashimoni each day when they are [...]
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