We arrived at the hospice at 8 am just in time for morning prayers where we met Sister Patricia part of the Franciscan Sisters in Africa who had arrived in Uganda after her 10-hour bus journey from Nakuru in Kenya, while speaking to her we discovered she too was Irish!! She told us that there has been an outburst of cancer in Kenya in the past year and about many of the moving cases she had come across whilst working in a center called Love & Hope, she also told us about recent violent break-in’s to priests and nuns houses around her area including where watch guards are shot, windows are smashed and money was stolen. What was most interesting were her stories about election time in Kenya and the inter tribal tensions and atrocities.

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