Refugees fleeing violence in Kenya have found shelter at the Wayland Baptist University campus near Nairobi, where a visiting professor sent out a request for pain medication as those who were injured had no access to medical treatment, a school official said Jan. 9.
Richard Shaw, dean of the Kenya campus and director of the Wayland Missions Center, said he received an e-mail from Don Ashley, associate professor of religion at Wayland’s campus in Anchorage, Alaska, saying there are “approximately 200 refugees in need of pain medication.” Shaw was at Wayland’s main campus in Plainview, Texas, and Ashley was in Kenya preparing to lead a three-week course.
Also, a news release from Wayland’s main campus said students attending the Kenya campus have had family members killed in the violence that erupted Dec. 27 following a presidential election. More than 500 people have been killed in the East African nation.
Shaw was scheduled to arrive in Nairobi Jan. 13. A new semester was scheduled to start Jan. 14, and at press time administrators had not decided to postpone classes.
“I have been overwhelmed by the faith and the acts of our Kenyan brothers and sisters,” Shaw wrote to Wayland faculty Jan. 8. “Coming from different tribes, they have demonstrated peacemaking and reconciliation at every turn, and are indeed setting the example of the living Christ and the ethic He taught and lived.” (BP)
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