Archive | June, 2016

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This week at PKC…

We love having visitors at Precious Kids Center. It’s great to have people come to hear about the work we are doing, hear the kids stories and get to know the kids. It’s also a blessing for us because the kids light up when they get to meet new friends and it helps reinforce just how […]

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Kijabe Check ups

  This week we headed back down to Kijabe with Lillian, Jabal, Sherry and Dinah to get them seen by the specialists at the hospital. Jabal has had seven operations since he came to live at PKC last February. He has tumoral calcinosis so he frequently gets painful tumors on his joints and there is […]

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Throwback Thursday- Manu Koech

Manu has come a long way since his first day at PKC. Manu came from another children’s home in a town four hours away from Kitale after being abandoned at the hospital by his mother. We got a call from the children’s department saying that they had two kids that needed a place to stay after […]

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Throwback Thursday- Japheth Nakoche

Japheth has lived at PKC since November of 2013. I got a call one day from one of his neighbors so we went to visit. Japheth was living with his father, stepmother and half sister. His sister was sitting out in the living room happily playing with her mother. She was well fed, well cared […]

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Kijabe Roadtrip

On Tuesday we loaded up Joel, Lillian and Sherry and made the five hour drive down to Kijabe Hospital where they specialize in helping children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. We woke up early on Wednesday and waited for our turn to see the doctors.   Joel was the first to be seen by the […]

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Throwback Thursday- Bramwel

  Bramwel has been with us at PKC for three and a half years. I got a call from a friend of mine who drives a motorcycle taxi that he found a kid that needed help. So the next day he took me to meet Bramwel. I walked in the house and Bramwel instantly snuggled […]

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Meet Joel

I met Joel last year when I traveled to Korosion, West Pokot with a visiting team to help out with an eye clinic. The village that we visited was very remote and very hard to get to. We had to drive on bumpy roads, and up rocky hills for about an hour. Then we pulled […]

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Meet Sherry

I’ve known Sherry for a few years now. Her mom was constantly going around to different people and I had gotten several calls about her and gone to see her on several occasions. I had her mother meet me at the Kijabe Clinic in town one day to have the doctors take a look at […]

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