I’m so proud and humbled at the same time to have such a great team working for us in Kenya. Amazing women who go above and beyond whenever the need or call for assistance arises. Yesterday Antoinette, our administration manager, and Pastor Susan, our center, and our student’s spiritual leader, and counselor were picked up before daylight to accompany our friend and partner, Rani Ramchandani, past president of the Lions Club of Menangai on what they all knew was going to be a very long, arduous but rewarding day. The Lions Club of Menangai was delivering wheelchairs and mobility assistance devices to both mothers ofRead More

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Ester grew up in a family of seventeen kids (yes 17). Her father had two wives. Her mum, the 2nd wife had 9 kids. Her stepmother had 8.She started school when she was 6, however, her mother, who struggled to feed her family by working as a casual farm laborer for less than $2.00 a day when work was available during planting and harvest season, struggled to pay Ester’s school fees as her father gave no support. Ester feels as though she was raised by a single parent. For her mother, affording food was not easy and she remembers her and her siblings going without aRead More

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It’s World Food Day – a day to not only appreciate what we have on our plates but to stand beside the millions of people who don’t know where their next meal will come from. With everything going on in the world right now, it’s often hard to remember the pain and hardship experienced by the most vulnerable. But our strong commitment to caring for our society is important to us and we will not abandon the neediest in our communities.Every week for the past 18 months our small team of volunteers has been delivering food hampers to the elderly, people living with disabilities, most of whom are bedridden, mothers of disabled children,Read More

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Despite the many challenges our students had to endure due to Covid restrictions, we celebrated another graduation last month. Graduation day has always been a huge family celebration, with up to three generations of family members in attendance proudly witnessing their young women’s achievements. High school is not free in Kenya and higher education is certainly not free, making learning a trade out of reach for our students and their families. So, watching their daughters and granddaughters graduate with business and computer skills and an employable trade has always been a very special day for the families and an especially special, enjoyable day for me.Sadly,Read More

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Today is the International Day of the African Child, a day set aside to give voice to the challenges facing the continent’s children, often due to poverty. COVID-19 made this last year even more difficult for vulnerable children across the continent.Your unwavering support of our food hampers distribution program and our vocational training school has made love and care more tangible than ever. Dear Jennifer,We’re halfway there!!! Yeah…Imagine, 2021 is almost past the halfway mark and we starting to see a little light at the end of this long, dark, tragic tunnel. The vaccine has been rolling out in Kenya since March 2021, and close toRead More

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It’s been one month since the Kenyan government ordered our second lockdown on March 26th. Not that a government-ordered lockdown makes any difference to the elderly, disabled, and single mothers who have been struggling to find food and assistance since the pandemic began. Through your very kind support, we have been able to provide food hampers weekly. So many that I have lost count. However, please take a moment to read a recent email I received from Ephantus Wachira, who has tirelessly donated his vehicle and time to organize and deliver our food hampers and assistance to the neediest in our communities. Dear Jennifer,In Kenya, theRead More

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On March 26, the Kenyan government announced further restrictions in an attempt to stop the 3rd wave of Covid 19 sweeping across the country. In his address to the nation on March 26th, President Kenyatta is quoted as saying,“Since my last address to the nation on 12th March, 7,630 Kenyans have been admitted into our hospitals for COVID-19. Yet before my address to the nation on March 12th, 4,990 Kenyans had been admitted. In 13 days only, our admission rate increased by 52%. This confirms the fact that a Third Wave of COVID-19 is at hand in Kenya. The positivity rate is at its highest sinceRead More

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On March 11th, 2020 the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic—and turned all of our lives upside down. One year ago this week. A hug went from a warm greeting to a health hazard. We were forced to separate from friends and family; tragically, some of us lost friends and family.The first case of Covid 19 was detected in Kenya on March 13th. The government immediately sprang into action, closing all schools, small shops, open markets, factories, and basically any means of employment where the wage earner was surviving on a bare minimum salary, to begin with, and no backup savings. Often, ifRead More

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Graduation Day. A day of celebrating a year of hard work and exciting new beginnings ahead. As we heralded in 2020 almost 12 months ago with great expectations for an amazing year of growth at our school and celebration of the continued success of our graduating students, who could have imagined that instead, the new year would become the year they will be talking about 100 years from now. As we come close to the end of 2020, please allow me to take you on a one-year journey of our achievements, and where we survived and served because of your support and amazing commitment toRead More

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Ngorika and Kanjuiri ridges is a vast area located in a remote and hilly area of Nakuru east Sub-county, off Nakuru -Nairobi Highway neighboring the Delamere Estate. This region is characterized by remoteness, impassable roads, and high incidences of disabilities. The presence of fluoride in water has a big impact on the community’s health especially teeth and weak bones. Lack of access to good healthcare has also contributed to many cases of disabilities arising from lack of primary health as well as pre and ante-natal care for pregnant women and post-natal care for young children. Home deliveries have also contributed to maternal mortality and avoidableRead More

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