Videocast: GOH Prevention Approach

We are happy to share our latest video. Our April 2012 Vidcast is from part of an interview Aaron had with our friend Patrick Maina, who serves as the project officer for African Christian Church & School's Guardians of Hope project in Kenya. In this interview, Patrick shares obstacles being faced by the church in its efforts to address the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS, and he shares an important aspect of the approach being taken by the GOH in Kenya.

You can watch the video here or download it at our page on Vimeo by following the link below.

https://vimeo.com/40647328

Interview Video

You can watch this short video interview with Erica and leaders in Canadian Baptist Ministries Self Help projects in Kenya here or download it directly from Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/35389128

Untitled from Aaron & Erica Kenny on Vimeo.

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Principles of Faith-based Community Development

What is Integral Mission? What are the goals of the work that we are apart of as Canadian Baptists in places like Eastleigh or in rural communities throughout Eastern and Central Africa?

We wanted to share with you a short video that we made for Saint Stephen's University on principles of development that undergird much of the ministry that we lead with Guardians of Hope and the Iftin Women's Empowerment Program. In the video, we talk about these questions and discuss the framework that shapes much of the ministry that we are a part of in Africa.

Link

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7126669/Fivekennys%20Video%20Podcast%20Women%27s%20Empowerment.m4v.zip

Iftin Champs!

Aaron & Erica with Nelius, Farhiya

and the students of Iftin's class two

Last Friday was sports day at the Eastleigh Community Centre and the Iftin students were thrilled to have won a Volleyball Trophy against the faculty of the primary school. Today the students in class two shared with us and our friend Naoma. We are thankful for the commitment of Nelius and Farhiya as they walk with the students day by day in the literacy project.

Mathare Community Garden

Gardening in the Urban Jungle

Solidarites International staff worker Akoi and community beneficiary Josephat with a vertical garden of kales. We are thankful for the help of both Akoi and Josephat who have assisted the Iftin women in establishing vertical sack gardens in Eastleigh. Over the past three years, the Mathare Community Garden project has helped over 8000 vulnerable households build and harvest their own vegetables and raise their own poultry. Families are trained on the construction, care and maintenance of the gardens and are provided the materials to make 3 to 6 vertical gardens of their own.

Sukuma Seedbeds and vertical sack gardens

As we continue to work together with the Iftin members on strengthening the women's empowerment program, we are learning from our friends in Mathare Valley on how to best provide food security for the urban poor.

Tomato vines in the Mathare Community Greenhouse

Naoma and one of Hawa's daughters

today at Noor Creations

Noor Creations

VIDEO PODCAST

This week, we posted a video podcast for our colleague Lois Mitchell and her students at Saint Stephen University. In this 17 minute video, we talk about the importance of women's empowerment within Integral Mission.

To download our latest video podcast, please click on the link below for our public dropbox site:

Video Podcast

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7126669/Fivekennys%20Video%20Podcast%20Women%27s%20Empowerment.m4v.zip

What is a Podcast?

What's a Podcast?

During our time of visiting with churches and friends in Canada, many people asked us about providing more ways to connect with the stories and lives of people benefiting from the ministry that we are a part of in Africa. In addition to the photos and short posts here on our blog, we have been experimenting with a regular audio update, or podcast. Each podcast is a five to ten minute recording that you can download off the Internet or listen to directly online. Through the podcast, we are able to share audio interviews, updates and prayer requests that you can listen to and share with others. If you visit our blog regularly, no doubt you've noticed a few "podcast" related posts over the past month. We hope this will be something that people will enjoy and feel free to share with others.

iTunes -- The Easiest Way to Listen

If you use iTunes on your computer, you can find us in the free podcast section in the iTunes Store where you can click on “subscribe” for automatic updates for your iPod or mp3player. Along with our podcast, you'll find thousands of great podcasters worth listening to.

You can also go directly to our podcasting webpage at www.fivekennys.podbean.com where you can listen, download, or subscribe to them. From time to time, we'll also put this link within blog posts for other people to find the podcasts.

We have also begun to post a video podcast that you can watch online, or download and share with others. The size of video podcasts are too large for us to host on our podbean site, so for now we are simply uploading them to a public dropbox site that you can access through links provided here on the blog. Hopefully we'll find a simpler way for people to subscribe to the video podcasts in the near future.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the podcasts or suggestions on particular topics or aspects of our ministry that you would be interested in learning more about. By clicking on the "comment button" and leaving a message, your question, suggestion or comment will be emailed directly to us.

Erica in conversation with Judith Wambua

and the Guardians of Hope in Kalimani, Kenya

For anyone listening to the podcasts on an iPod or iPhone, we are posting our recordings as an AAC file with embedded photos. As you listen through the podcast, you will be able to view photographs that follow along with the audio.

Video Podcast

Access to clean water is a major global concern. In the community of Eastleigh, Canadian Baptists have been working together through The Sharing Way in partnership with the Eastleigh Community Centre to provide clean drinking water to Somali and Oromo refugee families. In this, our first video podcast, we sit down with Vincent Eyako, our Eastleigh Community Centre colleague who heads up the Eastleigh water filtration project, to discuss the importance of this project upon the people of this community.

Download Fivekennys Video Podcast

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7126669/fivekennys%20Eastleigh%20Water%20Project%20large%20version.m4v