Children's Meeting, Annual Convention, Tumutumu, Kenya, ca.1905-ca.1940

"Children's Meeting, Annual Convention, Tumutumu". Photograph of a gathering of children during an annual convention held at the mission station at Tumutumu. A group of children are gathered together sitting outdoors on grass, many are wearing head scarves. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to the Kikuyu Mission in Kenya, which was set up by Church of Scotland missionaries. Hospitals were established by Scottish missionaries in Kikuyu in 1908, in Tumutumu in 1909, and in Chogoria in 1922. The missionaries also introduced the Presbyterian Church to the area. The Kikuyu are Kenya's most populous ethnic group.