About Hekima Place
I am in Corner Bariti, Kenya, volunteering at Hekima Place (www.hekimaplace.org), an orphanage for girls. Hekima Place was founded in 2005 by Kate Fletcher to provide these girls a loving home-like atmosphere and an education up to the level they can achieve. Over the past 6 years, it has grown from a handful to now 65 girls ranging in age from infancy on up.
The girls live in one of four houses in the Hekima Place compound: Baraka, Neema, Maisha, and Kazuri. Girls in each house live like a family with a resident Mum who loves, teaches, mentors and disciplines them. Up to 8th grade, the girls attend a local school, Good Hope Academy. Beyond this point, the girls attend several different secondary boarding schools, coming back to Hekima Place during school holidays. Older scholars are now being supported in college or trade school, depending on their academic achievements and interests.
Though the girls are orphans, most do have extended families who come to see them at Hekima on visiting days and whom the girls visit during their school holidays.
Originally, Kate rented land and buildings for the orphanage in Karen, Kenya, just outside Nairobi, but in 2010, land was purchased in Corner Bariti in the Ngong Hills near Kiserian, buildings were built and the group moved here from Karen in December of 2010.
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