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Located 4 kilometres from Ngong Town, at the slopes of the Ngong Hills in Kajiado County is the Trinity Care Centre (TCC). The centre offers a range of services that include the following; long term nursing care, palliative care, elder care, in-patient nursing care, counselling and grief services, memory care, ADLS (activities of daily living), companionship, pain & symptom control and end of life care. They also boast of an outpatient facility located within Ngong town that offers outpatient services for the community in the area and also serves as a triage point for clients. The family that founded the facility was inspired to convert their home into a nursing home after giving home based care to a loved one with cancer.

The enchanting hills of Kipkorgot, Eldoret welcomed guests from afar and near to a special dedication and thanksgiving ceremony for Living Room Care Centre Eldoret. The colorful event was held on the gardens of the state of the art facility on 1st February 2019

Born in 1935 and named after an old prominent man in Luo Kambija clan, the tradition then was that when a prominent elder passed on, children born around that time got that name and this was the case with my grandfather. At this time I had just started interning at Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA) and I shared his story with my supervisor, Dr. Kinyanjui who then advised that with the prognosis and the pain, it was in order for my grandpa to seek palliative care guidance. My family at this time did not know much about palliative care and so convincing them to bring my grandpa to a hospice was difficult. With the help of KEHPCA I contacted a palliative care team in Kisii who went and paid a visit to my grandpa through the help of my mum at the hospital where my grandpa had been admitted.

“Receiving a full registration sponsorship from KEHPCA to attend the 5th National Palliative Care Conference in itself was certainly a stroke of luck, I was very excited”, Says Emmanuel Mayaka Onduso who is a Kenyan student currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Palliative Care at Makerere University-Hospice Africa Uganda. Having been a palliative care team member at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and a dedicated palliative care student at Makerere University, his senior lecturer had mentioned to him earlier this year that he would be attending a conference organized by KEHPCA in November. Out of his enthusiasms and curiosity to attend the conference he went ahead and contacted KEHPCA in order to find out if he could do any voluntary work so as to be allowed to attend the conference and unbelievably KEHPCA accepted to pay his registration fee and even sent him an invitation letter to release him from work. He says that when he initially started working at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), he had been focusing so much on the clinical and technical aspects and forgetting the holistic management of pain and needs of patients, then one day as he searched information online, he came to learn about Nairobi Hospice.