The mission trip is hosted by CURE International, a non-profit Christian organization that operates charitable hospitals and programs in 29 countries worldwide. The destination for the service team will be the CURE Hospital in Kenya, an affiliated hospital that performs over 1,500 life-changing reconstructive and orthopedic surgeries for children suffering from treatable disabilities.
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In Kenya, less than half the female population obtains anything beyond primary education. One group on campus is working to change this fact through a language that can be heard around the world.
The Community Development and Women’s Leadership Teams have a common goal: to help the people of Kenya.
This summer the two groups will go to Nairobi, Kenya, for a two-week-long mission trip in order to serve the community and work with the locals to improve their quality of life.
A Baylor graduate student from Kenya is studying how to provide education to children on the streets in his country.
Brooke Olonde’s passion for the children of Kenya stems from his childhood experiences. Olonde grew up as an orphan in Kisumu, Kenya, and became sponsored by Compassion International at the age of 9.
The Baylor Spiritual Life Women’s Leadership Team will travel to Nairobi, Kenya this summer to deliver 120 pairs of new shoes to St. Kizito Orphanage.
As he walked off the court with about one minute to play Sunday, senior Quincy Acy looked to be fighting back the tears.
From Illinois to Kenya. From Kenya to Baylor. Freshman Joy Poghisio knows all about branching out.
From playing with orphans in Kenya, to viewing a cultural dance in Cairo, or walking along the Great Wall in China, learning a language can provide new opportunities and adventures.
The green scoreboards with “hustle stats” stamped boldly across them in white letters that hung from the Ferrell Center ceiling may have come down when Baylor’s basketball arena got a makeover this last winter.
As tensions and political unrest began to rise in Egypt over the past two weeks, two Baylor students studying there found themselves caught between recommendations that they leave and their own desires to stay in a country they had grown to love.
