Children of Kibera News
November 9, 2010
Dear Friends of Children of Kibera Foundation,
Thank you for showing an interest in our organization. In order to learn more about the foundation, we cordially invite you to attend our fundraising dinner, “Feeding Minds, Building Futures”, on 11 December 2010 at the Panafric Hotel\'s Simba Room (Mezzanine Level).
Starting at 6:00 PM, students and professionals alike will be sharing their success stories and how they managed to overcome the obstacles they face growing up in Kibera. You will learn more about our projects and hear from our high school scholars who have pushed themselv... Read More
October 11, 2010
Ken Okoth grew up in Kibera, a huge, overpopulated slum in Nairobi, Kenya, lacking sufficient housing, running water and connection to the municipal sewage system or electric grid. He lived with his mother, Angeline, five siblings and other family members in a 12-by-12-foot, one-room house, before earning scholarships to boarding school, college and, ultimately, Georgetown’s graduate school. For more than five years as a Washington-area teacher and chairman of a foundation that uplifts Kenyan youth, he has helped expand, through education, the horizons of students who “work... Read More
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