We are different
We are Kenyan-led and serve our village through:
- All children can be educated, even those who have trouble learning.
- Children learn better when they are not hungry. We feed more than 1,200 students and staff everyday.
- Our home/school counseling helps keep poverty-stricken students in school.
- Our high school has classes for everyone – life skills, general courses and college prep.
- Test preparation is important and emphasized but love for the child is evident.
- We offer a time and place for women to socialize.
- Widow support, encouragement and protection is profoundly important to us.
- We provide women with life skills training in sewing, bead-making, gardening and caring for farm animals so they can provide for their families.
- We sometimes employ widows in various capacities so that they can feed their families.
- We provide shelter and protection for homeless families.
- We have an on-site health clinic for children, staff and community.
- We teach hygiene and continue to improve the toilet facilities.
- We have added multiple hand washing stations throughout the campuses for better health.
- We treat for pests in homes of poverty.
- Widows and others living in poverty receive access to clean water.
- We assist HIV/AIDS patients in making their monthly trips to clinics for check-ups and medicine.
- We provide shoes as needed to prevent jiggers, sand fleas that infect the foot.
- We help children and adults get access to health care because healthy parents are better able to take care of their children.
- Our New Beginnings Farm is equipped with 6 greenhouses, a pig barn, chicken coop, bee hives, irrigation ponds, a fish pond, and lots of growing vegetables so that our schools can become self-sustaining. We grow as many vegetables as we can to supplement our students’ nutrition and we hope to add fish and eggs to their diets soon.
- We teach agriculture classes in our schools for all levels of learning.
- Our high school students use their knowledge to help others in the community learn to farm.
- We provide a pig to a widow or family who wants to participate in our program. In turn, they give one of the offspring to someone else in the community or sell their full-grown pig, then give back some of the proceeds to help others. This financial boost is life-changing for a family.
