Nine novices make their first religious profession
On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, nine novices professed their first vows at the Formation House in Nairobi.
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Sons of Divine Providence (Don Orione)
Delegation “Our Lady of the Rosary” – Kenya
Thirty years of charity, faith and service among the people of Kenya.
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Kaburugi & Kandisi
Differently gifted
Two Orione Centres where children and young people with disabilities are rehabilitated, taught, and trained for work of their own.
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Nyadorera · May 2026
The day the gate stayed open
More than 800 people served in a single day: food, a free medical camp, legal advice, counselling, clothes.
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Maasai land · Kajiado
Water, training, dignity
Clean water and agricultural training for Maasai women and young people — more than fifteen families trained so far.
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Latest news
The Feast of St. Luigi Orione becomes service to the poor in Nyadorera
On the feast of the Founder, St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish opened its doors to more than 800 people for a day of free food, medical care, counsel and confessions.
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Fr. Jared Otieno Awuor ordained priest at Ramba
A first in many respects: the first priest from Ramba parish, and the first Orionine priest from the Archdiocese of Kisumu.
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The Isineti Project raises its first building in Maasai land
In the heart of Maasai territory in Kajiado, the first building of the Isineti Project is complete — the visible beginning of a work born around water, training and dignity.
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Three brothers profess perpetual vows in Nairobi
Justus Barongo Nyabuga from Kenya and Rangamallik Nayak and Monaj Baliasingh from India bound themselves for life to the Congregation.
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Eight aspirants begin postulancy on the Solemnity of Our Lady of Divine Providence
Four Kenyans, two Ugandans, a Tanzanian and a Burundian entered the postulancy — a group that mirrors the East African horizon of the Delegation.
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Fr. Evans Ombongi ordained in Kisii — the nineteenth Kenyan priest
The first ordination ever celebrated at Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Nyamache, drew thousands of faithful to the new priest's home parish.
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Gaitu: the Delegation’s first health apostolate opens its doors
The Orione Mission Afya Care Centre was opened at St. Luigi Orione Parish in Meru — the first dispensary of the Sons of Divine Providence in Kenya.
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A year of growth: Sobea aspirancy and the first Novitiate on Kenyan soil
Two formation houses opened in 2025: the aspirancy at Sobea in Nakuru and the novitiate at Makutano-Mwea — the first novitiate the Delegation has ever had in Kenya.
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What the charity looks like
Charity here has an address, a roof and a payroll. These are the works the Delegation runs today, alongside the pastoral life of its parishes.
Ongoing
Children with disabilities
Two Orione Centres, at Kaburugi and Kandisi, for children and young people living with cerebral palsy, autism and mental conditions: rehabilitation, basic education, vocational skills.
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Ongoing
Women in Maasai land
Free access to clean water, and training in kitchen gardens, water management and organic fertilisation for Maasai women and young people — with SlovakAid and the Orione Community Training Centre.
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Ongoing
Education, training and work
Primary schools in Murang’a, Ngong, Kisumu and Nairobi — the school at Kairi alone has 396 pupils — alongside farms that employ their neighbours and pay a wage.
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Ongoing
Health and community
The Orione Mission Afya Care Centre at Gaitu, and at Sholinke a healthcare centre, a hall for a hundred people, a poultry farm and an ICT centre.
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A school at Nyadorera and a college at Sholinke are the next two works of the Delegation. Both are at an early stage, and both are looking for friends willing to build with a project rather than after it.
Our presence
Where we serve
Eight religious communities and two Delegation projects, across the dioceses of Nairobi, Ngong, Murang’a, Meru, Nakuru and Kisumu. Choose a place on the map to visit its page.
Parishes
- Holy Spirit, Kandisi · Ongata Rongai
- St. Peter’s, Kaburugi · Murang’a
- St. Stephen, Kairi · Nairobi
- St. Luigi Orione, Gaitu · Meru
- St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Nyadorera · Siaya
Formation Houses
- Don Orione Formation House · Karen, Nairobi
- Aspirancy House · Sobea, Nakuru
- Novitiate House · Makutano-Mwea
Delegation Projects
- Sholinke Community Resource Centre · Kajiado
- Isineti Project · Maasai land
A Delegation of Charity
Thirty years, and still beginning
1996
The year the first Orionine missionary arrived in Kenya
8
Religious communities across five dioceses
2
Orione Centres serving children with special needs
The Sons of Divine Providence came to Kenya in 1996, in the footsteps of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity, who had arrived in 1979 and through whom the first Kenyan vocations were found. From a single house on Langata South Road grew parishes, schools, centres for children with disabilities, dispensaries and farms. On 12 March 2024, in Tortona, the Delegation “Our Lady of the Rosary” was formally erected — a Kenyan chapter of a family present in 34 countries, with its own government and its own sons serving across the Congregation.
Prayer of the day
“Only Charity will save the world.”
St. Luigi Orione
Discern your vocationCome and see.
John 1:39