Kenya: Teacher Uses Music to Help Terminally Ill Patients Cope

18 February 2020
opinion

Every Thursday for the past one year now, Joseph Maina, a father of two, makes his way to the Nairobi Hospice, near Kenyatta National Hospital.

He usually carries with him at least two musical instruments. This Thursday, he comes bearing an ukulele (it looks like a small guitar) and a harmonica, which he proceeds to play for a group of 17 gathered in an airy room -- 14 women and three men who clap and sing along to the music.

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