Visit Kenya · Blessed Generation
Nothing affects you more than experiencing it for yourself.
A visit to BG Kenya is not a charity trip. It is an encounter with what forty years of staying looks like — from the inside. Most people who come once never fully leave.
€10
Per night at BG Ruiru & Nyamira guesthouses, meals included
3
Locations welcoming visitors — Ruiru, Malindi, Nyamira
Oct
Open trip 2025 — 10 days, individual places available
Safari
Combine with Masai Mara, coast, or Mount Kenya
Why it matters — to the children, not just to you
Most visitors come to see. They leave changed in ways they did not expect.
The Dutch site says it plainly: nothing reaches you like experiencing it yourself. But there is a second truth that rarely gets said — visiting matters to BG and to the children, not just to the person making the trip.
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For the children — the world knows they exist
When someone travels from the Netherlands to sit in a classroom at BG Ruiru or walk the Lighthouse Village in Malindi, the children understand something that no amount of money communicates on its own: that people outside Kenya have chosen to come specifically to be with them. That is not a small thing for a child who arrived without believing they mattered to anyone beyond their immediate circle.
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For the children — the world knows they exist
Martin had been sponsoring a girl at BG Nyamira for three years. When he visited, she had kept every letter he had ever sent through BG, in order, in a folder. He drove back to Nairobi and set up a second sponsorship before he got on the plane home. The visit did not change his giving — it confirmed it, permanently, in a way three years of receipts and updates had not.
“I had been giving €40 a month for three years before I visited. I was not sure what I was expecting. What I found was a girl who remembered every letter I had sent, in order. She had kept them in a folder.”
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For the children — the world knows they exist
Martin had been sponsoring a girl at BG Nyamira for three years. When he visited, she had kept every letter he had ever sent through BG, in order, in a folder. He drove back to Nairobi and set up a second sponsorship before he got on the plane home. The visit did not change his giving — it confirmed it, permanently, in a way three years of receipts and updates had not.
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For you — a view of the world that does not go away
You will stand inside a classroom where children who arrived without prospects are achieving national examination results that outperform privately funded schools. You will eat the same food as the children. You will meet Ria and Fester and the Kenyan staff who have carried this for decades. You will understand, in a way that cannot be replicated on a screen, what forty years of staying actually looks like.
Trip options
Four ways to come — each designed for a different purpose, all genuinely welcomed.
Trip options
Four ways to come — each designed for a different purpose, all genuinely welcomed.
The Dutch site says it plainly: nothing reaches you like experiencing it yourself. But there is a second truth that rarely gets said — visiting matters to BG and to the children, not just to the person making the trip.
