CBM NEP Drought Response

A little boy in the CBM Ambulatory Feeding Project

in Bula, Northeastern Province, Kenya

Since July, Canadian Baptist Ministries has been responding to the impact of the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, through targeted feeding projects and health care services in mobile clinics in Kenya's Northeastern Province. Through partnership with local community-based organizations and agencies, we are feeding 7000 people living in overlooked villages and informal settlements.

Presently, Erica and I are working with our CBM colleagues, Tim and Diane Bannister, Yattani Gollo, and William Wako, to implement the next phase of CBM's drought response as we seek to help vulnerable communities to become more food secure, and mobilize them for self help initiatives and improved public health.

Please pray for these ministries as we work side by side with communities desperate for change!

September 2011 - Family Fun

BROWN'S CHEESE PLEASE!

Tristan at the Brown's Cheese farm in Tigoni, Kenya

Last weekend, we had a delightful time with friends visiting the Brown's family cheese business outside of Nairobi. It was a fun Sunday visiting with new friends and learning about how cheese is made.

Mommy and Emma in the cheese aging room

The Brown's Cheese Company was started a generation ago, as the Brown family started making cheese for themselves and for gifts. Soon their friends were wanting to purchase it, and from a small attachment to the farm house, a booming business grew.

Daddy and Ava on the tour -- It's not easy being cheezy!

Guinea Fowl roaming around the farm house

Emma's first swim meet of fifth grade

Also this past week, Emma was back in the pool competing in freestyle and back stroke in the Rosslyn Academy Invitational Swim Meet.

Emma did fantastic placing in second and third in her two heats

Fallingbrook Heights Arrives!

Joy, Don, Lila, Nick, Julie, John, Aaron and Erica

photo taken by Emma Kenny

Early Friday morning, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Fallingbrook Heights team who just arrived from Ontario, Canada. We are thrilled to be working together with them in Eastleigh over the next two weeks.

We have shared the past two days in orientation as the team prepares to work with both the Eastleigh Community Centre's primary school and the Iftin ladies. It has been raining off and on since they came -- also a sign of blessing in Africa!

Please keep this team in your prayers. We know that the next two weeks will go by quickly.

Urban Gardening

Our friend and colleague, Andai Jackson, teaching

some of the Iftin ladies about

URBAN GARDENING

It has been an exciting week in Eastleigh, as Erica and the members of the Iftin Women's Empowerment Program begin a new chapter as both Noor and the literacy class move into new space. Erica also led the ladies in building a new urban garden for Iftin. Here is a glimpse of the work, but we will have pictures of the completed garden in a few weeks.

Patrick and Erica meeting with ladies of the

Noor Creations women's self help group

in their new work space within

the Eastleigh Community Centre

Erica helping Nelius and Farhiya move into their new

classroom for the Iftin literacy project

Aaron interviewing some of the Noor members

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Tomatoes in the vertical sack gardens

Nelius and Hawa ready to plant

seedlings in the new garden

Farhiya and some of the Iftin women using rocks

in the irrigation columns of the vertical bag gardens

Several of the school children joining the Iftin

group as they prepare their new urban garden