As we prepare to welcome the New Year, we want to thank you for helping us achieve so much in 2024. Our women’s empowerment program, which provides vocational training and education to disadvantaged young women, grows stronger each year. It’s a joy for all of us to hear the success stories of our graduates. The worst drought in 40 years has caused severe starvation in the northern regions of Kenya. Through your generous support in 2024, the Springs of Hope Foundation has provided essential food hampers to tens of thousands of families not only in the severely drought-stricken northern counties of West Pokot, Turkana, and BaringoRead More

Springs of Hope Foundation’s primary mission is to provide free vocational training and empowerment to young, marginally educated women from very poor backgrounds. However, being part of a very impoverished community makes it impossible for us not to recognise the inequities within the surrounding slums. It’s usually the girls who spend months at home due to a lack of school fees. It’s very difficult to keep up with their classmates when they’ve been out of school for half the year due to a lack of school fees. Plus, they don’t have textbooks, and they don’t have electricity in their homes, allowing them to study inRead More

I arrived ten days ago. Unfortunately, my luggage arrived five days ago. Ha! Ha! It’s a good thing I keep a stash of extra clothes over here at the project. I love hearing good news stories from our graduates whenever I’m here. The girls love to stop by to say hi, share their success stories with us, and inspire the current group of girls to work hard and set goals to achieve their dreams. Faith, who graduated in December 2023, is one of those girls.Faith was born deaf. Any form of disability is usually shunned upon in East Africa, and the family will hide theirRead More

The Springs of Hope Foundation is proud to announce the success of our ongoing food hamper distribution initiative in Nakuru County and surrounding counties in Kenya. With a mission to alleviate hunger and provide essential support to the most vulnerable, this program has been a beacon of hope for the elderly, disabled, single mothers, and needy families in our region. Impact and Reach Over the past three months since my last update, our dedicated team and volunteers have distributed over 1,000 food hampers, reaching households throughout Nakuru County. Each hamper contains essential items such as maize, beans, fresh greens, and other non-perishable goods. These hampersRead More

The final week leading up to graduation is always a busy and exciting time for our staff and students. There are the final exams on our computer science course. The students are tested on their ability to operate and troubleshoot repairs on any of our industrial-grade equipment, enabling them to work in any manufacturing facility. There is a practical test on how to design their own fashion, create a pattern, and produce the final item. Then, finally graduation day, the joyous day when family and friends come together to celebrate the student’s achievement. Congratulations ladies. We are all proud of your determination and perseverance. WeRead More

Most of us had the luxury of early education, right? Yes, I do mean luxury. According to recent data from UNESCO, 250 million children worldwide are currently out of school1. This figure has increased by 6 million since 2021. Globally, 16% of children and youth (covering primary to upper secondary) are not attending school, with 48% of the out-of-school population being girls and young women. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for nearly 30% of all out-of-school children globally1. We are encountering more and more children within our surrounding communities and during our food hamper distributions whose parents, usually single mothers, cannot afford to enroll their children in school from kindergarten, or they have been in and out of school forRead More

Another great story to tell you about. I’m writing to share our good news.We have started a weekend girls’ club at Kijiji Mission for teenage girls within our surrounding community. A few of the girls that we currently sponsor in high school with school fees, a school lunch, free uniforms, books, and school supplies now come to our facility on Saturdays to study beginning computer training under Daisy, a former student who has stayed on with us to train our own students in our computer room every afternoon. The girls are very eager to be given this rare opportunity. They also share a hearty mealRead More

HAPPY MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY! Menstrual Hygiene Day(MH Day) is a global campaign celebrated on May 28th each year. It unites nonprofits, governments, individuals, businesses, and the media to promote good menstrual health and hygiene. The 2024 MH Day theme is Together for a #PeriodFriendlyWorld. Springs of Hope Foundation graduates have been sewing washable, reusable sanitary kits for the past three years thanks to kind grants from Spirit in Action and Lantern Projects. It’s a win-win project for our graduates, who live with us for free for 3 three months after completing their 12-month course, sewing the reusable pads and earning enough money to purchase their own sewing machine and seed moneyRead More

Earlier this week, I wrote about how relieved we were that our students arrived back from their Easter break safely and that none of their families were affected by the devastating floods that have caused dams to overflow and rivers to break their banks, causing entire villages to be swept away, often in the middle of the night, killing hundreds. Tragically, we received a phone call on Thursday morning from the neighbor of one of our students informing us that the brother of one of our girls had been swept away when a river broke its banks in an area not too far from usRead More