One of the goals of the Simama Project is to celebrate the children that we work with in a positive light. We are opposed to the marketing of children as victims and instead choose to focus on their successes. However, we also believe that it......
Above, we have the 13 stitches removed by our volunteer nurse. Clavicle Conundrums Here is a little Facebook post we put up last month about one of our kids. One of our 11 year old boys was running away from a friend in a harmless......
I grew up thinking that Christmas needed snow and the classic claymation 1964 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer movie playing in the background. Turns out you can get the same warm-Christmas-fuzzies by roasting a goat in Kenya. Christmas at the Simama Transition Home was great. We had decided......
Above is Deng and Alfred at St. Mary’s in Nyeri. One of the goals of the Simama Project is to celebrate the children that we work with in a positive light. We are opposed to the marketing of children as victims and instead choose to......
I don’t think that anyone would call Nanyuki, Kenya a vacation destination. It is a dusty market town that lies on the equator northwest of Nairobi. Nanyuki is not particularly attractive but, if given the opportunity, I would return there in a heartbeat because of the people who make......
Some NGO and non-profit organizations around the world provide what we would consider to be “Band-Aid” solutions; temporary aid that does little to alleviate the actual issues. It is that way with street children. If you see a young child on the street asking for......