The Good Life Orphanage

Yes we are far off the beaten track so we were very surprised today when two vehicles pulled up at The GLO and out jumped members of the Ireland Cricket Team along with our good friends Philip & Mika from Camara. After a tour around the orphanage, shamba & school we invited them to sign [...]

Lisa arrived at the GLO in July 2010 after being abandoned, we could see she was a well cared for little baby and wondered what her background was. A few months later a young woman turned up at the GLO and said she was Lisa’s mother. We asked why she had abandoned her but she [...]

On Friday night at 21.00hrs, the DCO Juma Boga called me telling me to go and pick a baby of 1.5 months old at Kilifi District Hospital. The following morning Mama Lucy and myself set off to meet the Social Worker at the hospital. On arrival at the hospital Mr Chea the Social Worker brought [...]

St Bernadette & St Mary’s School was built to accomodate our orphan children from the GLO and the impoverished children from the surrounding area. In order to ensure that the Donor Family’s wishes are carried out to the letter of the law and only these children attend the school a Social Worker is employed to [...]

Changes in the new Kenyan Constitution mean CCI’s now have very strict guidelines to follow, hopefully this will mean an end to orphanages/homes/schools set up by unscrupulous people who take advantage of people’s good nature and use them as a means to extract money from people. Children now arrive at the GLO with only a [...]

On Monday 9th January 2012 Mama Dommy prepared Derrick for his 1st day at St Bernadette & St Mary’s School. He is now enrolled in KG1 with Madam Pauline. Derrick is a happy boy, now in company of many new friends at school and even in company of Maguire house kids, he is active, healthy [...]

It was on 8th January at 2.00am when Kanze Tsuma was informed by her husband’s cousin who had heard a cry in the bush of a new baby for about 3 hour and nobody is responding to the cry. This man is a watchman looking after some plants near Mtomondoni area, he was patrolling the [...]

Following the trip in December by Collins & his sister Racheal to find their extended family which resulted in them being reunited with their little brother Derick. On Thursday 5th January after trips to Court for Mercy and working closely with the Department of Children in Kilifi, Derick arrived at the GLO with a little [...]

St Bernadette & St Mary’s School is coming on a treat, tomorrow is the 1st day of the new school year and there is much excitement. In preparation for the return of the children, Crispis the Joiner has been working since the 26th December non-stop to put up new shelves in the Library, Computer Room [...]

This is the final blog of 2011, we have had a fantastic year at the GLO, 2012 will be another challenging year, the new 2010 Constitution of Kenya has brought many changes to the running of the CCI’s. Children are now in our custody for three years in the first instance and only after we [...]