A visit from a mzungu (ACIS)

It was arranged long ago, but eventually, the man from England, who is the UK representative of African Community Initiative Support and his Nairobi colleague, Dominic Muindi, finally arrived, hot, tired and hungry.
After a wash, a meal and copious amounts of tea, we took the two visitors to one of the annexes where some of the children live.
The kids, five of them, were sitting waiting for their supper when David mzungu walked in on them. The youngest child, Josephat, fell off his stool in surprise!
He soon recovered and ate his meal sitting on the lap of this strange being.

The following morning, the five kids and our two visitors met at our home, where all the kids wanted to try David's hat and have their pictures taken. This done, we all went to the orphanage plot, where eventually about 25 kids congregated. David had brought smoe small gifts for each child that had been collected by the people in his villagein England and these were distributed. David had also brought two frisbees which were an immediate hit with the children, especially the boys.

Our Children's Home

Mercy Gate Champion Children's Home was founded on a dream.My wife Abigael deamed that we had to look after the orphans and vulnerable children of Kisii, so in 2005, we founded our home.


We now have 35+ orphaned, disadvanteged and vulnerable children aged from two to fifteen. Although we are charged witht the care of these children, at present, we do not have a central home for them. We look after some of them and the others are placed in foster care for which we pay.


Mercy Gate is funded by donations from the church, friends and the ACIS, a Nairobi-based NGO.

This blog tell the story of some of the children, the little things they do or say, and gives news of events at the home.