Nairobi Excursion - VISAS
You will need to apply well in advance for a visa from the Kenyan High Commission. The cost is £30 and you should send your passport recorded delivery. Details, and the forms, can be found HERE.
Nairobi Excursion - Medical
Mosquito prophylaxis: Malarone (private prescription) 20 tablets needed.
Injections etc as advised by your GP/travel nurse. Yellow Fever and Hepatitis A and B are likeliest – cholera is not required as we will not be travelling out of Nairobi.
Injections etc as advised by your GP/travel nurse. Yellow Fever and Hepatitis A and B are likeliest – cholera is not required as we will not be travelling out of Nairobi.
Nairobi - July 2011
A group of Companions of the Order of Malta and friends will travel to Nairobi from 1st - 11th of July to take part in a programme of social action with some tourism and leisure activities.
The basic progranne:
Wednesday 29th June: 18.35 arrive Nairobi, transfer to St Joseph Centre in Karen
Thursday 30th June/Friday 1st July: Visits to Laini Saba, St Christine's, St Aloysius, St Secilia's etc. Change accommodation to Loreto Mary Ward Centre.
Saturday 2nd July: brief orientation meeting followed by painting Laini Saba Primary School.
Sunday 3rd July: Mass at Nyumbani Orphanage 10 a.m. then back to the painting.
Monday - Friday: a mixture of working in three primary schools and seeing first hand the activities of the Malteser Community Health Workers and TB clinics.
Saturday 9th July: visits to Giraffe Centre, Elephant Orphanage, Karen Blixen Coffee House and Kariokor Market, vigil Mass 5.30 p.m. in Karen.
Sunday 10th July: All day safari at Nairobi National Park
Monday 11th July -return to UK
The recommended airline from Scotland is KLM, although Companions in the south may find a cheaper alternative. You will be asked to book your own flights, currently around £850 return. The rest of the programme will cost about £400 per person.
The basic progranne:
Wednesday 29th June: 18.35 arrive Nairobi, transfer to St Joseph Centre in Karen
Thursday 30th June/Friday 1st July: Visits to Laini Saba, St Christine's, St Aloysius, St Secilia's etc. Change accommodation to Loreto Mary Ward Centre.
Saturday 2nd July: brief orientation meeting followed by painting Laini Saba Primary School.
Sunday 3rd July: Mass at Nyumbani Orphanage 10 a.m. then back to the painting.
Monday - Friday: a mixture of working in three primary schools and seeing first hand the activities of the Malteser Community Health Workers and TB clinics.
Saturday 9th July: visits to Giraffe Centre, Elephant Orphanage, Karen Blixen Coffee House and Kariokor Market, vigil Mass 5.30 p.m. in Karen.
Sunday 10th July: All day safari at Nairobi National Park
Monday 11th July -return to UK
The recommended airline from Scotland is KLM, although Companions in the south may find a cheaper alternative. You will be asked to book your own flights, currently around £850 return. The rest of the programme will cost about £400 per person.
Knights of Malta Ball - Saturday 5th March - Edinburgh
The Ball is fast approaching and all the tickets have not yet been sold. I cannot be there as the London Oratory School Scola is giving a concert in Glasgow that evening as our guests. Boys have to wear dinner suits and girls their usual designer LONG frocks ... Do please come if you can, the event is in the Sheraton and has auctions and other entertainments. Lady Biddulph has the tickets or you can buy online here.
Tee-shirts for the Nairobi Community Health-Workers
Alice has arranged for tee-shirts as a kind of uniform for the Community Health Workers, who are all enormously and justifiably proud of their work. This will give them a clear "brand" and each worker will be issued with two. The West of Scotland Companions are meeting the cost as a very worthwhile morale-boosting project.
Companions Excursion to Nairobi 2011
All Companions are invited to join the WOS Companions Group on the next Nairobi excursion, working in schools and visiting the Malta Clinics. The dates are July 1st -11th 2011 and the approximate cost will be £400 in addition to your return flights to Nairobi which you must buy yourself. KLM is vastly cheaper than BA and is highly recommended. Further details from Liam Devlin.
NB. You will need a VISA (£20 postal order required) from the Kenyan High Commission in London, and Hep a and B, jabs, as well as the BCG if you want to visit the TB clinics. Prophylaxis is also required against malaria, Malarone being the recommended one. Your doctor may also recommend typhoid and Yellow Fever innoculations if you are intending gadding about Kenya.
NB. You will need a VISA (£20 postal order required) from the Kenyan High Commission in London, and Hep a and B, jabs, as well as the BCG if you want to visit the TB clinics. Prophylaxis is also required against malaria, Malarone being the recommended one. Your doctor may also recommend typhoid and Yellow Fever innoculations if you are intending gadding about Kenya.
Nairobi Visit 1 2011
Alice Murphy and Liam listening to a fantastic briefing session given by a kick-boxing club in Kengemi Slum. These particular Community Health Workers use sport and rap-style entertainment to hammer home the message about HIV and TB.
The second snap shows five formidable ladies who are enormously popular Community Health Workers, led by Purity second from the right. She is proudly displaying her Malteser International tee-shirt.
Lady Bruntisfield at the Remand Prison Clinic.
The first of this year's excursions to visit the TB/HIV clinics run in Nairobi by the Order of Malta/Malteser International, took place from February 11th -21st. As well as the 13 young people and four staff from St Aloysius' College, the group was accompanied by Jane Stodart, Jan Bruntisfield and Liam Devlin. Among other privileges, we were allowed to visit the Clinic in the Remand Prison in the Industrial Area where great work is going on both with the prisoners and with the surrounding community. We were left in no doubt of the crucial importance of the Community Health Workers to whom Alice Murphy introduced us and the value placed on our spiritual and financial support.
Tuesday 8th February - Mary Queen of Scots
Tuesday marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Mary Queen of Scots.
To mark this, you are encouraged to attend the 8 a.m. Mass at St Al's and then stay to sing the Mozart Lacrimosa at Assembly.
After assembly, there will be brekkie in Wetherspoons - paid for by Old Silvestro, who will join the party after he has got the Jesuit Missions African Workshop underway with this year's Kibera group.
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