Lourine Oluoch

Lourine Oluoch is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Sr. Felister Maria Kwamboka, who belongs to the Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph Asumbi, plays with children at the nursery school that is part of the Baragoi Catholic Mission in Samburu County, northern Kenya. The school provides a safe space for children from all the tribes in Baragoi to learn and play. (Lourine Oluoch)

In Kenyan town of divided tribes, sisters serve all at Baragoi Catholic Mission

At the mission, "no one cares whether they are from the Turkana or Samburu community," says Sr. Felister Maria Kwamboka. "We remind them every day that all children belong to Jesus, and he sent angels to protect us."

Dr. Susan Navucha, a medical officer at the DREAM Center in Lang'ata, Nairobi, Kenya, meets a client on Dec. 1, 2023. (Lourine Oluoch)

Daughters of Charity center provides comprehensive HIV/AIDS care in Kenya

At the DREAM Center in Nairobi, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, staff and community health volunteers offer holistic care, testing, education and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Students of catering are pictured in class at the Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute, which is run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters. The institute helps young women in Nairobi's low-income areas. After the training, the students find employment or start their own businesses. (​​Lourine Oluoch)

Comboni Missionary Sisters provide a lifeline to vulnerable women in Nairobi

The Kariobangi Women Promotion Training Institute, run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, helps young women in Nairobi's low-income areas, offering them skills in tailoring and dressmaking, hairdressing, and catering.

Boy uses board and tiles to solve math problem.

Kenyan sisters provide education for children with disabilities

For 50 years, Kenya's Franciscan Sisters of St. Anna have educated children with disabilities. "Parents should not write off any of their children," said Sr. Celestine Mangiti.

A section of sisters at the Association of Sisterhoods in Kenya's diamond jubilee Mass celebrate Nov. 19 at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi. (Lourine Oluoch)

Association of Sisterhoods in Kenya celebrates 60 years

The Association of Sisterhoods in Kenya, which brings together more than 6,000 women religious from congregations throughout Kenya, recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Sr. Mary Mukui and Sr. Deborah Mallott of the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul outside Our Lady's Hospice, in Thigio, Kenya. The Daughters of Charity opened the hospice in 2010; it has provided palliative care to 568 patients. (Lourine Oluoch)

Sisters offer hospice care to patients in Kenya

The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul run one of only 70 facilities in Kenya that offer palliative care to terminally ill patients. Since 2010, the nine-bed center has provided care to more than 500 patients.

Kenyan sisters help motherless newborns pull through early years of life

Six Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph, a local Kenyan congregation, run a home in a region with high maternal mortality, taking care of newborns who have lost their mothers. Currently, they are caring for 42 children.

Good Shepherd sisters in Kenya offer safe haven for pregnant girls in crisis