The situation:

There are currently over 600,000 refugees in Kenya’s refugee camps, many of whom are unaccompanied, orphaned and separated refugee girls and single young women without family members. Refugee girls and young women face the highest risks of exploitation, assault, forced marriage, and abuse, resulting in extreme barriers to education, medical care, and employment.

Sara Lind continues:

These are the kind of things I learned when I started volunteering for Heshima Kenya, an organization that specializes in protecting unaccompanied refugee children and youth, especially girls, living in Nairobi, Kenya. As a mother, especially a mother to a daughter, these statistics have more power over me than they once did.

Read the rest of it.

And know that OPRF grad Anne Sweeney co-founded Heshima Kenya and has been its executive director. She and our #2 Son, Peter, tied the marital knot a couple years ago, by the way. He’s put in time at Heshima K, now back at his work as architectural designer, she soon to rejoin him in Chi.

Learn all about Heshima Kenya at its site, http://www.heshimakenya.org/. Follow it on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Heshima_Kenya.

Happy Mother’s day.