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One Wednesday afternoon, Nguru visited the Kibera Health Centre, which is supported by Tulisa, and described her health problem to the doctors there: Her eyesight had been deteriorating for years, to the point where she could recently only count the fingers on a hand held …
Our first patient, Samuel from Lilongwe, Malawi – whose case was the direct catalyst for the founding of Tulisa – has finally undergone successful heart surgery after a two-year wait, thanks to your generosity! Samuel was born with a severe heart defect: there was a …
As you will recall from our urgent appeal for donations last autumn, Helen Awuor from Kenya (who had suffered from myocarditis as a child) was suffering from a progressively worsening heart valve defect. The consequences of this were low stamina, shortness of breath and, within …
Let us recall: Climax lives with his parents as their only child in the south of the metropolis of Nairobi, Kenya. His only brother died of malaria three years ago because his parents – his father works as a security guard – could not afford …
Helen, aged 40, lives with her five children (aged 5–17) in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum. Ten years ago, she and her husband moved from Kisi in north-western Kenya to Nairobi, hoping to find work and thus a better income. Her dreams came to nothing: unemployment, …
Kind-hearted staff at the German Embassy in Kenya collected clothes for children at a day care centre in a poor suburb of Nairobi. Tulisa was able to hand these over to the delighted centre manager, Theresa, in March.
Amid the dispute over rigged results in the Kenyan presidential election on 27 December 2007, there were widespread riots across the country, particularly in the west (Eldoret, Kisumu, Kakamega), in Nairobi and on the coast (Mombasa). More than 1,000 people were killed in the bloody …