The Companions sponsor the wonderful work done by Alice Murphy and others in the Kenyan capital. Malteser International supports the Kenyan government by running eight clinics in the slums and prisons in Nairobi to diagnose and treat tuberculosis and HIV. They currently have a catchment of 1 million people and the work they have done to date has been awarded by the Kenyan government on two separate occasions.
The St Aloysius' College Petrasancta Society will be going out in February 2011 for its annual week working in schools and hospitals in the Kibera slum, in association with young graduates of the College's sister school, St Aloysius Gonzaga Kibera. All Companions are welcome to join them, staying in a secure Retreat Centre and working in a volunteer programme including the clinics of the Order of Malta.
The approximate cost will be £500 per person, excluding insurance and flights which Companions are encouraged to book themselves. You will be picked up from Kenyatta Airport and driven to the Group and may wish to come for less than the full ten days the young people are there. We hope to arrange a second trip, in the last week of June, for Companions who are students.
