My name is David Collins Owuor from Kenya, a beautiful country in East Africa. I am 25 years old and currently studying in Nottingham. I have been a Compassion sponsored child for almost twenty years having gone through the Child Sponsorship Programme and the Leadership Development Programme (LDP). I am sharing my life story to proclaim the love of God through Compassion International.
Posts Tagged ‘kibera’
From Kibera Slum to Nottingham University
Author: Web Team Posted: 16th April, 2012
Category: Leadership Development 11 Comments
How Can a Slum Start?
Author: Joe Posted: 27th March, 2012
Category: Blood, Sweat & Compassion No Comments
During the Blood, Sweat and Compassion challenge to climb Kilimanjaro in January 2012 we grabbed a minute with Eugene, one of Compassion Kenya’s staff (who was climbing the mountain with us) to ask him a few questions about the nature of poverty.
Poverty Changed My Life
Author: Web Team Posted: 9th November, 2011
Category: Advocacy, Project Visits 4 Comments
Heather and I had been sponsoring in a relatively disconnected way since around 2000. I use the word ‘disconnected’ because although we understood the work of Compassion and believed in its concepts, we had never actually connected with the children in any meaningful way. A trip to see the work of Compassion in 2007 changed all this.
