Rescue. Restore. Develop.
Five programs in Kakamega, Kenya, all working toward one goal: children growing up in families that can stand on their own.
Children's home and kinship care
We still care for the children our program started with: a safe place to live, a meal at every mealtime, school supplies and study of God's word.
Our heart is to see every child rooted in a family. Our social workers find relatives who are ready to bring a child home, and we keep paying school fees and checking in after the move. We call it supportive kinship care.
- 30 children and young adults in our care in 2025
- 50 children cared for through the years, many of whom have transitioned out of our care
- 45,000 meals served, with mealtimes open to neighborhood kids 2025
- 2026 our first child moved in with her aunt Jan 2026
Widow program
Widows in our program meet every month for counseling and encouragement. They learn financial literacy and soap-making, and we help them start or grow small businesses, from a market stall to a repaired corn mill.
We also meet practical needs: a dry roof, seeds and fertilizer, a dairy cow. When a widow is ready, she mentors the next one.
- 60 widows across six communities 2025
- 40+ completed financial literacy and soap-making training 2025
- $100–$500 starts a business or repairs a home
Mobile medical clinic for children with disabilities
In rural Kenya, children with disabilities are often hidden away, and many live where no car can reach. Our team goes by motorbike and on foot: nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and a transport team, led by our staff nurse, Leakey.
They bring medicine, wound care, physical therapy, wheelchairs, food (including food from our farm) and a few hours of rest for exhausted parents. They also help families get insurance, surgery and a place in a special needs school.
- 500+ home visits 2025
- 3 sight-restoring surgeries 2025
- 5 children enrolled in national health insurance and special needs school 2025
Education
The children who started in primary school are now in high school, trade school, college and university, studying nursing, teaching, pharmacy and plumbing. Our staff find internships and visit students at school.
Each student has one or two faithful sponsors, many for 15 years. But tuition has outgrown what sponsorships cover, so we raise an Education Gap fund to get every student to graduation.
- 11 students in college, university or trade school 2026
- $20,000 needed for 2026 school fees
Farm and businesses
Our farm feeds the children and widows in our programs, earns income, pays a living wage and teaches neighbors to get more from their own land. The goal is that our farm covers all overhead costs in Kenya over the next few years.
Chickens in our new facility, dairy cows, maize, beans, vegetables, fruit, flowers and 30 beehives. Our leather and shoe workshop trains young men in a trade.
- 75 bags of maize, up from 65 the year before 2026
- 15% of the harvest given to widows 2026
- 2 young men trained in leatherwork and shoemaking 2025
