Making a differenceWelcome to Kenya Thriving:
Welcome to Kenya Thriving:
Transforming Lives, Building Futures
Kenya Thriving was established in 2012 to partner with an existing Kenyan organisation. Otacho Christian Children’s Home is a registered community based organisation, currently caring for fifty one children in a rural community of south west Kenya. Each child comes from the local area having suffered trauma and the loss of one or both parents.
Our vision is to provide every child with a home environment. To achieve this we raised funds to enable our Kenyan partners to build five houses on the same site, each designed to accommodate ten children, who are cared for by a houseparent.
Since 2012 a great deal has been achieved to improve the facilities at the children’s home and create a secure place where everyone is able to thrive. In addition Kenya Thriving provides grants for food, hygiene and medical supplies, mosquito nets, blankets, school fees, uniforms and resources to enable each child to develop to his/her fullest potential.
100% of ALL donations go directly to the project and is spent within the local economy. This helps to reduce dependency and emphasises the children’s home as a Kenya community project.
Join Us in Building Sustainable Futures
Help raise funds to create new futures for children
Our emphasis is on partnership because we want to be part of the solution for the children and not the creators of dependency thinking for the organisation. To this end we only support self sustaining initiatives for the children’s home, such as solar lighting and using every house roof to collect water in tanks.
Kenya Thriving has developed over the years from assisting children in the community to supporting the community in caring for orphans in a collectivity.
Our focus today is about working with our partners to change tomorrow for every child at Otacho Christian Children’s Home
How it all began
In 2008 a young Kenyan couple began to offer a very basic education to local children, whose families could not pay school fees because of poverty. Even though the couple had minimal resources, they were providing classes as they were able, but prayed for more support. In 2009, during a visit to Otacho, two of our trustees met the young couple, visited their two roomed mud hut school, and having seen the poverty and the desperate need they could not return to England without offering some support. Kenya Thriving was born out of compassion for the children of the Otacho community.
Over the years, with the help and generosity of many people, hundreds of children have been educated at Otacho Hope School and many orphans cared for. Following a re-structure in 2019, the school closed when all the children were transferred to a local school, but Otacho Christian Children’s Home was established with fifty one of the most vulnerable children.
Impacts
5
homes offering a sanctuary to the most vulnerable.
63,510
meals are cooked per year.
4,680 kgs
of maize is consumed per year. Maize, along with beans and rice are diet staples in Kenya.
£1,000
per year buys hygiene products for the girls and medicine cabinet supplies.
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