Opus Dei

Mr. Martyn Drakard, born in England, studied French and Italian literature in Birmingham University, taught for two years in Italy and finally joined Strathmore College, summarizes the beginnings of the Community Service Centre (CSC).

25 students from 6 different countries come together to build an accommodation block for 200 schoolgirls in Homa Bay, Western Kenya.

Saturday 30th August at 10 am saw the launching of the exhibition A Saint in Figures about don Alvaro del Portillo, soon to be beatified in Madrid on 27 September 2014. The auditorium of Strathmore Business School was full.

Favors attributed to the intercession of Don Alvaro.

Strathmore University has been chosen as the first venue for the Exhibition A Saint in figures; that, from 30th will tour the East Africa geography. The Association Memoria de Alvaro del Portillo -organizers of the Beatification of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo- seeks to highlight the work carried out during his lifetime.

It all started in the 80's when my wife and I began to feel the urge to be a bit more serious in our faith. By then we had four children. We attended Sunday Mass but we did not partake of the sacraments.

Bishop Anthony Muheria (Kitui, Kenya ) participated in the Study Conference in the Centennial of Msgr. Álvaro del Portillo, Vir fidelis multum laudabitur, Rome from March 12th to 14th, 2014. Here is his presentation.

A joke is said that the fish celebrated when they heard our Lord telling Simon Peter and his brother Andrew that … “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

Isabel Covarrubias, a teacher from Santiago, Chile, is spending this semester helping out at Kimlea Technical Training Centre in Kenya.

Near Nairobi, Kenya, Kimlea began in 1989 under the encouragement of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo. To date about 12,000 women have benefited, most of them young girls working on the tea and coffee plantations.