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...
Elga Ochieng and Stephen Okoth want nothing more in life right now than the opportunity to continue to be able to complete their secondary school education. Elga and Stephen grew up in the Kenyan slum of Kibera – among the largest slums on the continent – on the...
The sad, tragic news is that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), Sierra Leone, where our longtime partner Rural Youth Health Organization (RYDO) partners operate free clinics for the poor, has the highest death rate from disease in the world. The number...
Many years ago, our longtime partner, Angela Miyanda, founder and director of the Kabwata Orphanage and Transit Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, had a dream to open an early childhood center for the youngest of the orphaned, abandoned and destitute children in her care. That...
In Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, the rate of illiteracy among youth is about 70 percent, which according to UNICEF (originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), “which is about more than 2 million youth who do not...