0-14 years: 42.3% 15-64 years: 55.1% 65 years and over: 2.6%
Life Expectancy:
male: 57.49 years female: 58.24 years (2008 estimate)
Infant Mortality Rate: 54.07 deaths/1,000 live births
People living with HIV/AIDS: 1.2 million (2003 estimate)
Literacy:
Total population: 85.1% male: 90.6% female: 79.7% (2003 estimate)
National Holiday: Independence Day, 12 December (1963)
From - World Factbook 2009
Our main work in Kenya is community based healthcare, with a strong emphasis on the development of women, care of persons living with AIDS, support for AIDS orphans and the prevention of the spread of HIV.
We have recently increased our commitment at Kapsoya near the town of Eldoret, where many people are still recovering from the upheaval suffered in the Rift Valley in the early months of 2008.
In the capital city, Nairobi, we are committed to healthcare in the large slum called Mukuru Kwa Njenga.
We also have an administrative house in Nairobi which provides hospitality to the many missionaries passing through en route to or from other parts of East Africa. Although we no longer have a resident community in Turkana, the work of women's development is supported from Nairobi.
One of our inter-cultural houses of formation for young women aspiring to become MMMs is also located in Nairobi.
We went first to the people of Kenya's Turkana Desert during the deadly famine of 1962. Those were exciting days when Sisters trained as pilots for our single-engined Cessna.
Today the challenges are different - helping to stabilise communities after political violence, providing care for a huge population of child-headed households, or sharing our skills with the truly remarkable people who are squatters in the city slums.
We draw inspiration from them all as we work together. Please come on board with us to help our dreams for them to come to fruition.
Stoies from MMM in Kenya
Memories of MMM in Turkana “Dear, how would you like to go to Africa?” (Mother Mary to first Sisters assigned to Turkana) 1962 - 2009 Introduction: The Medical Missionaries of Mary first came to Turkana and what is now the Diocese of Lodwar in 1962. For forty-seven years they have shown forth the healing love of God. It is now time to move on as the local Church continues the ministry. >>> more.
Kenya in Recovery August, 2008: Negotiating Nairobi's traffic congestion could appear to be the country's biggest problem. Billboards offer luxuries large and small. In the poorest and most densely populated slums where MMMs are working, countless makeshift retail outlets offer cellphone top-ups. Even the tiny tots know how to use them.
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry mandated to investigate the post-election violence at the beginning of 2008 earned its share of praise, describing Justice Waki as 'listening to all parties, sober, focused and unwavering' in his pursuit of fairness. >>> more. Eda’s Homes by Sister Kay Lawlor Kenya, 2008: This morning I met Eda, a wife, mother, and Community Health Worker trained by Sister Patricia Hoey and her team at St. Mary’s Clinic in Eldoret. Eda is a remarkable woman. When she told me her story, when I saw the pain in her eyes and glimpsed her hope for the future, I came away feeling privileged and humbled to have met her. >>> more
New Hope at Mukuru Kenya, 2007: NAIROBI’S large slum area known as Mukuru Kwa Njenga lies between the Outer Ring Road and the North Airport Road in Embakasi district. MMM Sisters first went there in 1995 when the local community requested medical assistance. Many of them shared our vision working towards a healthy, sustainable and just society. >>> more.
Hope for Orphan Boys Kenya, 2007: In Africa there is a saying ‘when a child is in the womb, it belongs to the mother but once born the child belongs to the society.’
Kamene is a middle-aged resident of Nairobi’s large slum area known as Mukuru. She has embraced this idea literally. Against all odds, myths and practices, she took her deceased neighbour’s four children, aged between six and fifteen years, to be her own. Despite being jobless and having been abandoned by her husband, this mother of grown-up children is now taking care of these four young boys from a different tribe. She began selling vegetables to earn income. >>> more.
Turkana Women develop skills in basket making Kenya, 2006: In Kenya Sister Kathleen Crowley is involved in the Women’s Development Programme of Lodwar Diocese. Basket-making has become quite an art and a source of income for many women.
‘Here in Turkana, every bit of work in the home is a woman’s chore’, says Sister Kathleen. ‘The women are the main bread-winners, but their own basic human needs are not met. Water is very scarce and they walk long distances to get it.’ >>> more.
Short interview in which Sister Mary O'Malley and Sister Maura O'Donohue speak of an Interfaith Workshop held in Nairobi in June 2009 to address the problem of Human Trafficking.
Interview with Sister Patricia Lanigan,based in Nairobi, Kenya where she teaches pastoral ministry from the perspective of transformation of society. She tells of her experiences and her PhD thesis which she has just completed.
“Dear, how would you like to go to Africa?”
August, 2008: Negotiating Nairobi's traffic congestion could appear to be the country's biggest problem. Billboards offer luxuries large and small. In the poorest and most densely populated slums where MMMs are working, countless makeshift retail outlets offer cellphone top-ups. Even the tiny tots know how to use them.
Kenya, 2008: This morning I met Eda, a wife, mother, and Community Health Worker trained by Sister Patricia Hoey and her team at St. Mary’s Clinic in Eldoret. Eda is a remarkable woman. When she told me her story, when I saw the pain in her eyes and glimpsed her hope for the future, I came away feeling privileged and humbled to have met her. 
Kenya, 2007: NAIROBI’S large slum area known as Mukuru Kwa Njenga lies between the Outer Ring Road and the North Airport Road in Embakasi district. MMM Sisters first went there in 1995 when the local community requested medical assistance. Many of them shared our vision working towards a healthy, sustainable and just society. 
Kenya, 2007: In Africa there is a saying ‘when a child is in the womb, it belongs to the mother but once born the child belongs to the society.’
Kenya, 2006: In Kenya Sister Kathleen Crowley is involved in the Women’s Development Programme of Lodwar Diocese. Basket-making has become quite an art and a source of income for many women.
