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August 14, 2010
A group of twenty one summer volunteers and their supporters back in the USA made a contribution that will last for decades, impacting positively the lives of the children who will be educated in the four new classrooms at Red Rose School and the new computer lab at Ayany Primary School. Check out their trip blog and learn more about their experiences volunteering in Kenya with the Children of Kibera Foundation.... Read More
August 28, 2009
Education for poor families in Kibera has received a major boost through a new foundation. The Children of Kibera Foundation is already helping orphans and needy pupils and students in Africa’s largest slum. Set up by Kibera-born Ken Okoth in 2006, the foundation has been able to source money to pay for 15 students through their entire secondary education. In 2008, the organization sponsored the first group of four girls to enter Form 1, and this year they were able to sponsor eleven more. According to the project coordinator, Mr. Japheth Ochieng, this has been realized through mostly US... Read More
August 26, 2009
The New Year has come with a pleasant surprise for some of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates.
Eleven of them at Nairobi’s Kibera slum, six of them girls, were on Friday given secondary education scholarships by non-profit organisation Children of Kibera Foundation (CoFK).
The organisation decided that because the pupils performed well in an environment fraught with little food and comfort as well as inadequate reading materials shows that there is a great potential that could go to waste due to poverty if not tapped.
The CoFK intends t... Read More
July 26, 2009
Kenneth Okoth worried all through December about the close presidential election in his homeland of Kenya. Things could get tense, the high school history teacher told friends and neighbours. Pray for our country. But the violence that erupted in Kenya after the contested Dec 27 presidential election was worse than Okoth had imagined. The streets teemed with thugs. Members of ethnic groups that had lived together in relative peace for decades turned against one another, looting and burning homes and stores. Then Okoth heard that members of a gang called Mungiki were roving the street... Read More