Margaret Wanjiru and her daughter25th November 2011 - a cold freezing rainy Friday morning. Despite the dull weather, the bright smiling faces of the staff at the Organization of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) who were up early and eager for the dedication ceremony of a completed house to an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) at Mai Mahiu brightened the day.

The OAIC had planned for the ceremony for a while now and had anticipated for a beautiful day and even the gloomy weather could not stop those plans. The hour or two road trip to Mai Mahiu was smooth all the way even as it drizzled all the way. The house whose dedication was the focus of the day had been fully sponsored by the OAIC for an IDP Margaret Wanjiru and had finally been complete and ready for occupation by its new owner.

Nigeria has recently made international headlines for various reasons and especially the terrorist attacks by a Militia group calling itself Boko Haram. The General Secretary of OAIC Nicta Lubaale recently visited Nigeria for a regional meeting and states that the various OAIC member churches in that country are doing well and striving to improve its capacity building activities and thus ensure sustainability of its programmes.