Nairobi Orphanages

In Nairobi slums thousands of children orphaned by AIDS are growing up in small, staggeringly rough orphanages. Built by friends and neighbors to protect the children and give them the chance of an education they are raising a generation of vibrant and resilient Kenyans.
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  • Nairobi, June 2010 - local kids outside the front of the Siloam Fellowship ministry Academy in Kibera slum.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - overviews of Kibera slum from the second level of the Siloam Fellowship ministry Academy.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - overview of Kibera slum from the second level of the Siloam Ministry Academy School and Orphanage.
  • Nairobi, June 2010-sleeping quarters on the second floor of this Silome fellowship ministry Academy.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - As part of the oasis project which we were working on, we had asked the directors at the Siloam children's home whether a few of the kids might pose for photo. The crowd grew as well as the excitement as the kids surged to get their photo taken.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - street front with in the shop and normal muddy road in Kibera slum
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - shoe store in the Kibera slum.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - The front door of the Saint Catherine's children's home with its new second-floor addition above the original mud stick structure.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - outside the St. Catherine's children's home the kids play like anywhere in the world except for the open sewer running beneath their feet.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the older girls take their lunch standing in a barely together side room off the one-room school at the St. Catherine's children's home. F
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the younger kids break for lunch in their one-room school at the St. Catherine's children's home in the Kibera slum.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - Boys work at their school work in and on used unlit mudbrick classroom at the Saint Catherine children's home in Kibera slum.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - this girl lives at the St. Catherine's children's home in Kibera slum. She was asked to be in the photo of the front of the home by the directors Of the home.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - this girl lives at the St. Catherine's children's home in Kibera slum. She was asked to be in the photo of the front of the home by the directors Of the home.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - A boy who lives at the St. Catherine's children's home was asked by the directors to be in a photo standing in front of their children The fome.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the Kibera street scene outside the St. Catherine's children's home.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the Kibera street scene outside the St. Catherine's children's home.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - the Kibera street scene outside the St. Catherine's children's home.
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - The street front of the Agape Hope Center. Lusweti a director of another children's home and two directors from flying kites oasis project wait to meet the centers directors while local kids enjoy the camera. T
  • Nairobi, June 2010 - The pharmacist at the Agape Hope Center works at his desk. He is part of a sophisticated program to dispense basic medicine as well as antiretrovirals in what, so far, is a successful effort to limit transmission of HIV to newborn babies.
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