Since the primary school re-opened in the New Year, we have noticed the absence of some of the adolescent boys with whom we had come to know. In particular, we began to miss Jamaal*, a fourteen year old boy whom we had spent some time with last fall. We were shocked to learn that he had been taken b...

Iftin's first graduating class! Back Row: Leila, Hawa, Samiya, Faiza, Zahra, Safiya and Falastin. Front Row: Khadija and Aisha. The teacher's tent! Erica, Zahra and Nelius at the graduation ceremony held in the Eastleigh Community Centre's vocational training square on Friday morning, February 27th....

It is another hot and sticky day amidst the grime and dust of Eastleigh. Looking across the community from the upper storey of a Sixth Street cinder block apartment building, we are confronted by an all too common sight. The garbage and sewage below us are sadly a repeated scene throughout the neigh...

Some members of the 2008 Iftin group at our end of year celebration On Monday, we gathered for a party with about fifty of the Somali ladies and many of their family members. It was a great time to celebrate the accomplishments of these determined and courageous young women. It was also an opportuni...

A group of boys interrupted their game to show us their ball. Dennis, the second boy in, made the ball himself out of plastic shopping bags and bits of string her collected in the trash. In Kenya, as in most of Africa, football is the common passion of both young and old. Despite this love for the g...