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...
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/liSZjAXTGXg" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe> Thousands of African children will be able to greet the new year full of hope, thanks to...
Below is a letter from our spokesperson, Phyllis Keino R.N. We hope you find her words to be as inspiring and hopeful as we did. Dear Friends, On the eve of a brand new year full of hope for thousands of Africans whose lives you made better in 2017, I wish to take...
We work with amazing partners in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Zambia to provide loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children. At these orphanages, children find a loving, caring home where they truly become family. These children receive nutritious food and the healthcare...
This past June, we organized our very first 5K run to fundraise for a water well in Kombolcha, Ethiopia. We are happy to announce that the water well, after months of geological surveys and site adjustments, is finished! Ethiopia was gripped in a devastating drought...
Phyllis Keino, our international spokesperson and founder and director of the Lewa Children’s Home in Kenya, is the mother to more than 235 orphans – including one little girl named Sheba who is almost 10 years old. Sheba was born with physical deformities of her...
While the AIDS epidemic may have fallen off the front pages in the United States, it remains an urgent and critical problem around the world – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – causing millions of children to lose one or both of their parents at a very young age,...