COVID-19 Response in Nairobi Slums

We know from past crises that women are typically left out of traditional disaster relief efforts. That's why we're stepping in as women led organisation...

We need a new school!

In April 2018, our school was demolished. We need help to start again.

Nairobi cancer survivor has hope at last

Margret is among many women Compassion CBO trained in 2015. She has survived breast Cancer 2 times.

Now aged 63 years it was in 1993 she underwent total Mastectomy sad enough it had a recurrence in 2013.

She was put under adjuvant chemotherapy where she has spent over $5000 in treatment from 2013.

Every day she takes Tamoxifen. Through thin and thick she has managed to pay $3000 for her medication but has to raise the remaining $2000 and pay for Tamoxifen every month.

Margret is a beneficiary of Compassion CBO women training programme on micro business.

The little did we know Margret will greatly benefit with the training and now she sells home made detergent.

Regularly she sells to the Compassion CBO school in Githogoro Slum. She walks long distances selling the detergent to raise funds for her medical expenses.

Margret belong to Kiambu Cancer Support group a network of Compassion CBO.

http://www.compassion-cbo.org/network/kiambu

Compassion CBO launches film about Anti-FGM campaign in Kenya

Compassion CBO launches short film about their Anti-FGM campaign in Kenya

Compassion CBO conducts Anti-FGM Seminar In Heri Junior School.

In May, Compassion CBO conducted another Anti-FGM Seminar, to educate children and teachers about the dangers and health hazards related to FGM.

Compassion CBO opens office in Nairobi

Thanks to a grant by Amplify Change to support a new Anti-FGM hotline, Compassion CBO has opened an office in Nairobi.

Compassion CBO awarded grant for Anti-FGM Hotlines in Kenya

Following an intensive selection process, Compassion CBO has been awarded a grant by AmplifyChange to run Anti-FGM Hotlines in Kenya.

In Memory of Aunty Polly

The children of Compassion CBO school in Nairobi are the beneficiaries of a heart-felt tribute from the friends and family of much-loved Parthenia Adams - ‘Aunty Polly’ - who passed away, age 97, in Detroit, Michigan.

Keeping the children dry at school

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters we managed to repair our school roof before the rains started.... Panic had set in at our school in the Githogoro Slums when we heard that there was going to be heavy rain.

UK Trade Union Helps Grassroots Group in Kenya to End FGM & Empower Women

At a UK Trade Union conference a delegate, Debbie Hollingsworth, proposed that this year's collection should go to Compassion CBO, a Kenyan non-profit who she had visited. This is the story.

My Goodbye to Githogoro, but Compassion's Work Continues as Ever

My last blog from Kenya... I hope you will remember that just outside Nairobi, Compassion CBO will carry on regardless. I hope you will continue to support them... when you are here, on the ground, it makes a world of difference knowing that someone, somewhere, believes in what you are doing.

Kenya: Grassroots Business Training in Action

Nearly 150 women received certificates of completion following a business training course run by Compassion CBO in Kenya