Africa – Kijabe, Kenya
*August 2008 (dates still pending)*
Cost: approx. $2,800
What you’ll be doing > There’s alot going on here, probably if someone has a desire to do something, there is a place here for you! You will be coordinating with our missionaries, Rich and Stacy Davis doing various projects. Some examples are: praying for/with patients, leading devotionals for patients, story time in pediatrics, playing with the orphanage children, reading with kids at the local primary school, organizing medical supplies, working with youth at the local church. There is a Bible college, printing press, RVA, the hospital, nursing school and local church.
Kijabe is a town in Kenya. Its name is Masai for “Place of the Wind”. It stands on the edge of the Great Rift Valley at an altitude of 2200m, some 50 kilometres north-west of Nairobi. Kijabe is located in the Lari division of Kiambu District. Kijabe has a population 17,334 (1999 census, total population of Kijabe location) [1]. Kijabe has a railway station along the Uganda Railway. The town is located between Limuru and Naivasha. There are actually two places called Kijabe. Kijabe Town is located approximately 2km north-west of Kijabe Mission Station. Kijabe Town is the closest settlement to the Railway Station of the same name and is a community of small land holders. Kijabe mission station is the home of Kijabe Hospital, Moffatt Bible College, and Rift Valley Academy, a school for children of missionaries established in 1906.
Rich and Stacy Davis work in Kijabe as missionaries for AIM International.
