People Who Make a Difference - Winnie Barron and The Makindu Children’s Center
Meet Winnie Barron, the co-founder of the Makindu Children’s Centre along with Dianah Nzomoo, in Makindu, Kenya. The Centre is in rural Eastern Kenya, in a town of 20,000 people between Nairobi and Mombasa.
Winnie Barron, is a physician assistant at Good Samaritan urgent care clinic in Albany, Oregon. Roughly twice a year she takes unpaid leave to work a month in Makindu. She first volunteered in 1994 to help survivors of the Rwandan genocide. She came back to Africa after that and helped at a hospital in Makindu. The orphans she saw living in run-down huts and old cars made her want to help more.
The Makindu Children’s Centre provides nutritional, medical and emotional support, access to basic education, and opportunities for vocational training for over 400 destitute orphan children.
For more information, go to
Makindu Children’s Program
P.O. Box 51556
Eugene, OR 97405
