Mombasa...

Last week I visited Mombasa for the first time. It took us 9 hours to drive there from Naivasha.

While I was there I visited some of the projects that Mission Care International has been working with, together with Footsteps International. The first project we saw was Timbwani, which is a school, orphanage and housing project on the edge of the city. There are 600 pupils at the school and 28 children who don't have parents living at the orphanage. There is also a feeding programme ensuring that 200 additional children get the food that they need.

I also visited a project in Mombasa called the Bombalulu Workshops and Cultural Centre. This project provides wheelchairs to those people in Kenya who need help with mobility, and also provides jobs for people with disabilities. They work really hard to produce the most amazing handcrafted jewellery.

We have had good news in Kenya because the politicians have decided to work together in government which has led to peace. Sadly, many families have been forced out of their homes after the recent fighting, and they are now living in tents like the ones below.

I am glad that the politicians are going to be working together to help the people in Kenya who have lost so much in the first months of 2008, but I am sad for all the people who have seen such terrible things and hope and pray that they can be helped through this time of change.