Baba Nyumbani, Swahili for ‘Daddy Is Home’, our flagship micro-community in Kitale, Kenya.
Within the Bondo District of Western Kenya, 20% of children are orphaned and without care, largely due to the AIDS crisis. The community receives the least annual rainfall in the region, resulting in unfulfilled harvests, poor drinking water, widespread malaria, and extreme poverty. As a result, Bondo’s children are without a bed to sleep in, adequate daily food, an education, and loving guardians. And long term? No promising future.
Our next micro-community and children’s home will give our future Bondo kids a home that not only meets their basic needs, but offers each one a life-changing path to self-sustainability and purpose. We call this a holistic care approach. So what does this look like?
- The children’s home will consist of multiple family units so that each child lives in a nurturing, tightly-knit family environment with both a house mother and father.
- An on-site life skills school and agricultural operations will provide hands-on learning and training opportunities for children, staff, and community members.
- Healthy food will be sourced from the farm, creating an environment of self-sustainability for all who live there.
- A brand new well will provide a reliable source of clean water to the micro-community and our close neighbors.
- Every child will attend school, receiving a quality education as far as their performance can take them.
- On-site medical clinics will provide quality healthcare to children, staff and local community members.
- The micro-community will provide above fair wage job opportunities to the Bondo region.
- Community engagement initiatives will create change not only within the lives of our children and staff, but also those living in the villages surrounding the micro-community.
