While staying in a hotel in Mericana, Kenya, our volunteers found themselves with a couple of days to kill while waiting to return home after completing a local relief project. The hotel owner took the opportunity to direct the team to an elderly woman who was living in terrible conditions nearby.
Seeing how she lived really touched our group and, though not part of the agenda of works, we decided to do something to improve her situation. In space of a few hours we took down the corrugated roof and cardboard walls of her makeshift house and started into building her a permanent home of her own.
In Irish slang you could call this a ‘nixer’, but the difference we were able to make to her life was all the motivation we needed. She now lives in a fixed, brick built house that will be forever hers.
