Phase One - our first Kenyan mosaics, constructed in collaboration with David Kimani’s Juhudi Children’s club, at Gertrude’s Garden Children’s Hospital, Nairobi.

In September 2002 multi-media artist Jim Anderson travelled to Kenya to work — with David Kimani and members of Nairobi’s Juhudi Children’s Club on a series of four ceramic mosaic murals in Gertrude’s Garden Children’s Hospital, Nairobi.

This project, supported by various local businesses, was a great success, attracting the attention of the British Council in Nairobi and the British High Commission, as well as from journalists with The Young Nation newspaper and the Club Kiboko programme on Kenyan children’s TV. The initial idea was suggested by Anglo-Kenyan journalist Charlotte Njeru.

The Juhudi Children’s Club — founded by Mr. Kimani — is an organisation which aims to provide school-age children in Nairobi with cultural, sporting, and artistic experiences they might not otherwise get.

On the strength of this success - and as a tangible example of the idealistic, new spirit that came into being in Kenya after Emilio Kibaki’s victory in last year’s elections - it is hoped that each year for the foreseeable future will see a similar collaboration between Mr. Anderson and the Juhudi Club, either in Kenya or the U.K.