Street families

Street children that are part of the Nairobi-based Alfajiri Street Kids Art pose for a photo with the founder of the facility, Australian-born Lenore Boyd (at the back) / Joost Bastmeijer for Beyond the Orphanage

Meet Catholic Lay Missionary Igniting Hope in Kenya’s Street Families amid COVID-19

Apr 3, 2020

When news about COVID-19 broke out, plunging the world into action as governments across the world put into place safety measures to contain the spread of the disease, a Catholic lay missionary of Australian descent who has been working with Kenyan street children for nearly a decade assembled the children and informed them of the outbreak.

Street families

Meet Catholic Lay Missionary Igniting Hope in Kenya’s Street Families amid COVID-19

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