Deaf children in Kenya get help from Ulster
Ulster teacher, Helen Moorehead, has given up her job as a teacher in Northern Ireland to teach deaf children in the Tharaka region of Kenya.
When Helen discovered that deaf children in the remote bush area of Kenya had no education at all, she decided to move there. She is the first woman missionary ever to move to the area and is known in Swahili as “Makena” which means “Bringer of Happiness”.
She says in her latest update: "It has been the most satisfying period of my life."
Helen is overseeing the building of two classrooms and dormitories for the children and is appealing to the people back home to help finance the provision of 62 beds for the dormitories where some of her pupils will stay.
Her school-church complex - provided by the Methodist Missions Society in Ireland - is in an area where temperatures regularly reach 40C, and soon the monsoons will sweep in.
The contract for the dormitories has been started, and 62 children are lined up as boarders.
Through the bed appeal, Helen hopes Ulster people can help finance the beds for the dorm. Belfast man Tim Dunwoody is co-ordinating the effort and he can be contacted on 028 90320078.
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