Kenya

Civil War/Humanitarian Assistance/Durham Friends Meeting/Rice, Suki/

Local supporters of Kenyan orphanage watch with horror/

Brunswick Times Record/Brunswick/ME/USA/31-Jan-08/

DURHAM — An orphan care center in Kakamega, Kenya funded, in part, by a local Quaker group, remains in jeopardy today amid politically charged violence in ...

Kenya

Civil War/AVP///One man helps moderates tackle the roots of Kenya's ethnic rifts/Christian Science Monitor/ Boston/MA/USA/29-Jan-08/
Hezron Masitsa of the Alternatives to Violence Program in Nairobi, Kenya, says the time has come to find common ground......A practicing Quaker, a peacemaker by nature and profession, Masitsa is part of a small but significant group of Kenyans who are ready to heal the country's ...

Kenya

Civil War/Religious Unity/Non-Violence/Malimo, Churchill/
Fresh protests as Kenya crisis grinds on/
Christian Science Monitor/ Boston/MA/USA/16-Jan-08/

Pastor Churchill Malimo, head of the Friends Church (Quakers) in Nairobi, says that churches have fallen down on their responsibility to halt the violence.

"Churches must rebuke leaders who don't want to provide rule of law," says Pastor Malimo. "We can speak with one voice and tell our leaders we want justice, but not by fighting. We must resist attempts to allow our people to be misused by people in power." Unfortunately, all Kenyans come from one tribe or another, and "some pastors are taking sides, so the church is not speaking with one voice." . ..

Humanitarian Assistance/Education/Civil War//
In Kenya, sanctuary put to the torch/
The Oregonian/ Portland/OR/USA/6-Jan-08/

As part of the solution, the Harambee Centre, co-founded by Kuto and Jackie Goldrick, and West Linn High School brought two teachers and four students from Kenya to Oregon five weeks ago.

"We will send them back when it is safer," Kuto said. "I'm a Quaker. I advocate for peace. That's my bottom line. I'm optimistic when I think of the people, the human beings, the average American and the average African. But we are all at the mercy of our leaders, our presidents. Every morning when I wake up, I'm hopeful those leaders will look at things a little differently." ...