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Whilst on a family holiday in 2006, Church Member Debbie Scott-Robinson met local Baptist Pastor in Utange, Kenya, after getting away from the tourist areas.  With his wife, they were overseeing the care of ten children in the village who had lost one or both their parents to AIDS.  These were just a few of the hundreds of children orphaned through

On returning home, the plight of the children laid heavily on Debbie's heart.   As a Christian she would pray for the children and felt God say that He wanted her to do something about their situation.  AIDS.

So, with a small team, she began fundraising through The Sure Foundation to build a home and to feed, clothe and educate some of the children.  A local trust was set up in Kenya - The Sure Foundation Home for Orphans Project - to build and operate the home which was named Casuarina House. This opened in January 2009 with the original ten children moving in with Phase Two completed a year later.

A further fourteen children, making twenty-four in total, have grown up in Casuarina House where they felt nurtured, cared for and loved; they now have a hope and a future.  Now many are at secondary school or have completed further training and education, some with full time jobs supporting themselves.

Celebration High School was built as an extension of the Project and now provides secondary education for several hundred disadvantaged children who would otherwise not have the opportunity of furthering their life chances.

A feeding programme, Feed500, has for many years provided a hot meal each Saturday for over 500 other orphans who also receive a bag of maize to help meet their food needs during the week.



Debbie, with her husband Paul Robinson, have been recognised by the Church as missionaries to Utange, Kenya and are continuing the work with the Orphans Project as well as training and equipping local church Pastors in the area, leading Bible studies, running a Bible School and going out on mission with the Good News of Jesus.   Teams of volunteers can also experience African life whilst helping out in the Orphans Project.