A letter from Lewis’s mother, Esther Maina: Lewis was born on 14.11.1998 with a body weight of 3.6 kgs. He had slow physical growth, poor feeder hence small in size and feather weight. He had a fast heart beat. He was diagnosed PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) in april 2006. Advised to seek specialized treatment at Nbi which God... read more

1. Kirathino Presbyterian Church – BBI voted to send money to the Kirathino Presbyterian Church, Ndathi to purchase a public address/sound system. We received  the request from Esther Gathiga who wrote,” My church seriously needs a public address system.  We for now can not hold the youth in our church and a herd with no... read more

“Mzungu, Mzungu” the kids screamed as I walked down the dirt road to the edge of the forest for my evening walk. Never mind that I’ve known most of these children for four years now, they still squeal and giggle when I walk down the road, calling out “white person, white person” as if they’d never seen me.... read more

Although Burning Bush has expanded its outreach in central Kenya to include microlending initiatives, our principal focus to date has been on supporting nurses who operate clinics in rural areas. Since Kenya’s health care delivery system does not extend to many rural villages, nurses are often the only source of medical care in remote... read more

Burning Bush Inc. has become convinced that the key to improving global health is providing additional training and other support for nurses who are on the front lines of delivering care in developing countries. Two years ago, after conducting a needs assessment among nurses who own their own clinics in central Kenya, BBI found that they had... read more

Njeri Kaburu, the administrator for Burning Bush Inc.‘s microlending programs, recently sent a report summarizing all of BBI’s micro lending initiatives to various groups in and around Ndathi. The report did not include the support BBI has extended to cooperatives in the area, such as the Majuni Snowsnappers. The first micro... read more

Burning Bush Inc. has received a donation of $2,250.30 from Mrs. Rita Cochrane’s seventh-grade class at David Lipscomb Middle School in Nashville. The donation resulted from a remarkable two-year project that grew out of the class’s study of per capita income and standards of living around the world. In the fall of 2008, the... read more

February 13, 2010 Dear Friends, I want to share with you excerpts from two recent communications from Pastor Joseph about the efforts to provide food to those who are suffering as a result of the recent drought in central Kenya. As you will read, the contributions received in January fed 350 families at Solio Ranch (Village 4) and 300... read more

The Tumaini Grandmothers Group reports that it expects to resume payments on its loan from Burning Bush this month. The grandmothers had borrowed money to pay school tuition for their grandchildren and to purchase sheep, goats, and chickens. They planned to breed the animals and use the proceeds to pay back the loan and meet future tuition... read more

Poppy Buchanan and her daughter, Mary Barr, traveled to Kenya in early December to check on the status of several Burning Bush initiatives. Their first stop was Nyeri, where they visited Rosemary and Eustace Kamunya, co-directors of the WAKA Clinic there. Burning Bush is funding construction of the WAKA Continuing Education Center, adjacent... read more