Lourine Oluoch is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Sisters offer hospice care to patients in Kenya
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul run one of only 70 facilities in Kenya that offer palliative care to terminally ill patients. Since 2010, the nine-bed center has provided care to more than 500 patients.
Kenyan sisters help motherless newborns pull through early years of life
Six Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, a local Kenyan congregation, run a home in a region with high maternal mortality, taking care of newborns who have lost their mothers. Currently, they are caring for 42 children.
Good Shepherd sisters in Kenya offer safe haven for pregnant girls in crisis
In Kenya, society frowns upon early pregnancy, viewing it as a result of poor upbringing by parents or of teenage promiscuity. But in this country of nearly 50 million people, almost one in five girls aged 15-19 has already had a baby or is pregnant. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd welcome young women at their Annunciation Home Crisis Pregnancy Center, providing shelter, food, access to education and child care, and reconciliation with their families when possible.