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We, Sisters of Mercy of the Kenyan Province, are presently located in sixteen convents in twelve areas of the country. These houses are scattered over the country, mainly running along the Rift Valley from the North West to the Southeast.

We have also worked during the past forty years in some six of seven other areas, including the coastal region of the south. The policy has generally been to hand-over and move out of places where we feel that sufficient growth in local autonomy has been effectively continue the projects we initiated, and to open up less-developed or more needy areas.

On more recent past, we have managed to loan some sisters to other areas in the congregation. We have Anne Itotia in the CLT, Rose Macharia in Nigeria, Rosemary Wanyoike and Patricia Kyambu in Zambia and many others will follow.

Languages and Culture

We are mainly involved with members of seven tribal groups, each with its own distinct language and culture. Many of our members work in the cosmopolitan city of Nairobi, where tribal identities especially as regards the younger generation, are of less concern, and where Kiswahili and English are more generally spoken.

In Nairobi many of our projects facilitate rural migrants, internally displaced by the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the disturbances euphemistically called ‘The Clashes’. These murderous activities were due mostly to political instigation especially during the early 1990s.

Physical environment

The physical conditions under which millions of these displaced people eke out a living are dire. In the North of the country the environment of the people where our sisters live equally challenging, and in the Southeast only slightly less so. This is mainly due to the harshness of the hot climate in these desert and semi-desert and the semi-desert areas, and to the failure of successive past governments to develop or maintain means of communication or other services such as roads.