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In 1985 there were no schools in Mukuru, a slum, or shanty town, of half a million residents, in Nairobi, Kenya. Nothing could be done about the problem, because there were no government funds available. When a deputation from Mukuru met Sr Mary Killeen, she said to them "build me a hut and I will teach your children." So they built a corrugated hut and, in it, Sr Mary, with Fr Manuel Gordejuila, offered education to the slum children and the beginnings of community development. The initiative was called Mukuru Promotion Centre and it grew and grew, so that within 10 years over 5,000 children were accommodated in several separate schools, together with multiple other projects, covering health care, skills training and community development: see the MPC site. Sr Mary's account to the "One World" conference in Vienna, 1998 |
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Other Web references: Voluntary Missionary Movement in Mukuru Katie Payne of Croydon's account of Mukuru |
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