Busy schedule for Serena on her first visit to Kenya

US Open and Australian Open tennis champion  Serena Williams will have a busy schedule on her maiden tour of Kenya.

Serena will arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi on Thursday afternoon on a South African Airlines.

The tennis super star, who will be accompanied by her mother, Oracene Williams, will just have enough time to rest before taking an early flight on Friday to Makueni, where she will open a secondary school that is named after her on Friday morning.

She will then return to the city, where she will pay a courtesy call on the Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Serena, the younger of the two Williams sisters famous for their tennis prowess, is on an African tour as the global ambassador for technology firm Hewlett Packard HP, who have teamed up with Build African Schools Foundation to put up learning institutions and fully equip them with computer facilities.

For the better part of this week, Serena has been on a similar trip in Johannesburg, South Africa, working with the Starfishgreatheart Charity for orphans infected with HIV.

HP donated funds to the children, who brought tears to Williams’ eyes. “I hope to see these kids again, and I hope today that we affected their lives by bringing life into their eyes and into their souls,” Serena said in South Africa yesterday.

“I’m going to be in Africa for a little over a week.  On Thursday, we are going to Kenya to do the same thing.  Let us all appreciate each day we have, and love each day,” said Serena on her website.

Her foundation, which concentrates mainly on education projects for the poor, has set up another school in Senegal.