by Kari | Oct 9, 2012 | Beauty
Named after one of the Masaii tribes in the area, Kaputiei was conceived from Ingrid’s belief that “you can’t move out of poverty if you are living in hell.” The land for Kaputiei was acquired through great travail (and that is a story all on its own) in 2002 and is...
by Kari | Oct 6, 2012 | Benevolutionaries
Ingrid often expresses her gratitude that Jamii Bora was created in her later years rather than when she was a young woman. If it had, she asserts, she would have made the mistake that so many organizations with a mission to help end up making. The gist of which is,...
by Kari | Oct 4, 2012 | Benevolutionaries
Tom Thiong’o Tom is the head of Jamii Bora’a Levuka Center, a residential treatment program for alcoholics and addicts. Levuka means to become sober. That is what Tom has been for 18 years and what he is teaching people who come to Levuka to become. Tom was a teacher...
by Kari | Oct 2, 2012 | Benevolutionaries
Andrew Otieno Andrew grew up in the Kibera slum with a single mom struggling to care for numerous children yet was able to provide him with a loving role model of strength and perseverance. It is the place he has chosen to remain and run a clinic in order to meet some...
by Kari | Sep 30, 2012 | Benevolutionaries
In our time with Jamii Bora, I have gotten a sense of the difference between pretense and pride. Not a single one of the people I have met has a shred of pretense that I have detected yet each one of them embodies and expresses their pride; in the work they are doing,...
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