Big suprise when I got a call from Monica the taxi driver. She had a visitor who wanted to visit the home and see me. Edna and Brian Elliott our wonderful sponsors from England suprised us with a visit. They stayed at Bamburi Beach Hotel and visited us several times before leaving back to England. We were spoiled with personal gifts, lots of shopping and lots of fun. They are a very big support to us and even during their holiday they were always busy telling others about our home. They are wonderfull people who are supporting us and other homes without any benefit at all. Thank you Edna and Brian we do miss you very much.

 Lioness Cubs Home is doing well. We are grateful to all our visitors who have visited the home in the last few months. We can not mention them all by name however we have their names within our visitors book. We would like to sent all our visitors a card by the end of the year so we kindly request you to sent us your post adres to ireneokech@yahoo.com

The schoolterm is almost ending. Another three weeks before the school close down for about 4 weeks. All the children are doing well in school. Salome, Selina, Morris and Maxwell are going to St. Timothy school while the others are going to Visual school. These are private schools. The public schools were full at the time of admission and therefore they all go to private school. It is possible to sponsor the children if you like for their schoolfees.

The youngest ones, Moses, Faith, Beatrice are still remaining at home. They will go to school when they reach the age of 4 years. They stay home with the staff members Mugaga the care taker, mama Jane the mama of the house, and Rama the cook. We mostly have 4 or 5 volunteers but sometimes only 2 with low seasons.

We have welcomed another child with the name David since one week. David is HIV infected and not in a very good health. Living with his grandmother who is paralyzed on the left arm, in Bombolulu the situation of the boy was to serious to ignore. We were kindly requested by Susan of Women's Vision to take a look at the boy living conditions. We took David when we saw the dirty small room he lived in and the sick grandmother. David is 8 years and started school since yesterday at Visual.

We hope to buy a plot soon. We have been seeing some options but are waiting for the deal which will make our heart jump! We hope that within this year we can start building the new home to host about 40 children. In Kenya many children are abandoned after birth. Many girls are raped or are to young to take care after babies and dump them in pit latrined or forest. In Kenya many men do believe when they have sexual intercourse with a virgin as young as possible they will get healed from aids. Recently I was reading a story which moved me to tears: a father complained to the police that his wife was neglecting the children. The police arrested the mother and put her in jail. The same evening the father raped his 4 months!!!! young baby girl. The neighbours heard the baby screaming and went to find out. They found the father in bed with the badly injured baby.

 Lioness Cubs Centre is longing to expand its facilities to offer these children a home where they will be good taken care of and where they can heal from their injures. Therefore we need your help and support. If you cant help us financially please bring us baby clothes and items for these babies that when we are having the new home we have everything we need to start welcoming these children.

All our children are doing fine. Johnson turned 17 years already and is now 4 years with us. Johnson comes from Thika. Johnson is in standard 5. He didnt go to school for a long time that is why he is behind.  Both parents died. Salome is turning 13 and doing fine, she is in standard 5.She comes from Kisumu and is an orphan.  Selina is now 11 years and in standard 1. She has epileptic and regurlary fals down. Morris is 7 years and in standard 1 and doing very fine. Morris is also from Kisumu and orphan, relative to Salome. Maxwell is now 13 years and he is standard 8 doing very fine in school. Maxwell has a father but was ordered by the child officer to live with us due to torture. Dennis is 9 years and in standard 3 and a brother to Sylvester 5 years KG 2 , brothers to Beatrice 2 years old. orphans and coming Thika. Moses is 3 years and was abondaned in the hospital in Mombasa. HIV infected but doing ok. Faith is 2 years old, abondaned in town in Mombasa, she is in good health. Kipu is 9 years old, orphaned in 2003, HIV infected. He is in standard 3 and doing fine. His sister Savannah died November 19th 2005 in Mombasa hospital. She lived with us for 2 and half years. Gregory is KG pre class 5 and is 4 years old. He is an orphan and HIV infected, brought to us by a relative in 2005. Dixon is in KG pre class 3 and is 6 years and HIv infected. He has a father who is also HIV victim. The sister of Dixon lives in another orphanage. They sometimes do meet each other. Diana is 6 years and granddaugther to Mama Jane. Esther is 10 years and in standard 4 she is the daughter of Mama Jane and living with us.

If you want to visit us please sent us an email or call us. We will pick you free of charges from your hotel and drop you any time you want. We can organise the transfers from all North Coast hotels( like Bamburi Beach Hotel, Travellers, Whitesands and Voyagers )  and Kikambala ( Sun and Sand, Le Soleil ) 

Please call Irene ( mama Simba ) 0723333834 or William 0728888772

Thank you !!