Central Business District and Embakasi area

This is where it all started.  Although the self help group was formally registered on 14th February 2007, it had existed as an informal group for some time.  For convenience sake, Nairobi has so far been split into three areas of operation:

  1. Central Business District and Embakasi area - the page you are currently reading

  2. Mathare area - which you can read about here

  3. Ongata Rongai - which we will present soon

Frederick Omole, or Kwame as everybody calls him, is employed as a Blue Cross worker in the Nairobi area by Maisha Mema Child Sponsorship Program.  He is basically connected to schools.  These fall into three groups:   

Primary Schools.  These clubs normally run every week or twice a month.  Kwame normally uses to teach the pupils in different areas concerning their every day life as young people. 

Secondary Schools.  The main aim in these schools is to establish peer counselling groups, so that the students themselves can counsel each other.  The teaching methods here range from lectures via group discussions to games. 

Other groups.  In addition to primary and secondary schools, we also have other groups.  Children in the Maisha Mema family - basically Standard 6 and upwards - meet every second Thursday.  

One of the students in the Blue Cross Club of Waddington High School in the Soweto slums of Nairobi makes a point during one of their sessions.

 
 

 

Kwame (in the read shirt) with participants in a Blue Cross seminar in the Pumwani area of Nairobi.

 
 

For more information, write to BlueCrossNairobi@maishamema.org

Note that this page is still under construction. 

It will be updated with lots of stuff later!

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