Any school needs classrooms, a library, and a laboratory. It also needs a kitchen to prepare the food for hungry students, as well as a place for them to gather to sit and enjoy their meal break in between their classwork. Such as the Kebeneti Secondary School in...
For one brief, heartbreaking period in their young lives all that the three brothers Wilson, Samuel and Joseph had was themselves after unbelievably being abandoned by their mother. And it was on a dark, rainy evening in Kenya when a neighbor heard their desperate...
In Zambia, Angela Miyanda takes in the country’s most vulnerable children and provides them with a loving home. But equally important is the fact that in doing so, she also prepares them for the day they will walk out when they must be ready to live on their own –...
While many organizations that help orphans in Africa work to address critical issues like clean water, healthcare, poverty, and education, millions of children remain highly vulnerable. When there is so much to do, it can seem like a long-enduring uphill battle. We...
Local Partner: Lewa Children’s Home, Eldoret, Kenya Local Program Director: Phyllis Keino, RN, Founder / Executive Director Area Served: Serving orphans from all over Kenya at the home located in Western central Kenya. Program Goal: To educate and care for...
Local Partner: Baraka Farm Local Partner Director: Phyllis Keino, Jos Creemers Area Served: Providing support for Kenyan orphans cared for by the Lewa Children's Home in Eldoret. Program Goal: To provide wholesome, healthy foods for the children at the Lewa Children’s...
Local Partner: Kipkeino School Local Partner Director: Mrs. Vimala Sebastian, Administrator Area Served: Serving primary school-aged children from all over Kenya at the school located in Eldoret, Kenya. Program Goal: To provide an exceptional education and educational...
Working in partnership with local African organizations, we provide funding, technical support, capacity building and moral support to effectively connect resources from the United States with the ideas, commitment and hard work of African people in order to create...
Ethiopia is the only African country to never have been colonized, though it was briefly occupied by Italy during part of WWII. Ethiopia has been a leader in joining the United Nations, supporting the decolonization of Africa and establishing the Organization of...
Kenya is known as the "cradle of humanity" because of archaeological finds in its Rift Valley. It has also been a major crossroads for roughly 4000 years for people from all over Africa and the Middle East. Effects of a three-year-drought that...
Sierra Leone endured a brutal civil war between 1991 and 2002 resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people (about one-third of the population), many of whom are now refugees in neighboring countries. Rampant poverty...
Recent surveys indicate that 1.7 million (out of a total population 10.5 million) of Zambians are infected with HIV. Among the younger generation the proportion is even higher; 16.5% of adults ages 15-49 are infected. AIDS has halved Zambian life...
Local Partner: Ndegbormei Development Organization Local Partner Director: Yema Ganda/Executive Director Area Served: Bumpeh Ngao Chiefdom, Southern Sierra Leone Program Goal: Provide quality healthcare to children and pregnant women Program Services Provided: Vital...
Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone! Please help support our partner program, Faith Healing Development Organization! GIVE TODAY! Local Partner: Faith Healing Development Organization Local Partner Director: Rev. Francis Mambu, Founder/Director Area Served: The cities of...