Friends of Ngong Road

We empower Nairobi children living in poverty to transform their lives through education and support, leading to employment.

Archives for October 2014

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The 2014 “Send a Kid to Camp” Campaign Was a Smash Success!

As you know, we ran a special “Send a Kid to Camp” fundraising campaign from May through July of this year.  Our objective was to raise $20,000 to cover the cost of the camp in 2014.  Thanks to your support our total contributions were well past that!  We are so delighted to have achieved such success in this campaign.

In August, over 350 children in Kenya experienced what they all call the best week of the year.  They will have eaten well, escaped the confines of the slums in Nairobi, and had their lives enriched with games, arts and crafts, and just plain fun. The $20,000+ we have raised covered it all! Thank you for making it possible!

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Letter From Nairobi – U.S visit

Dear Friends,

This has been a busy time here in Nairobi at Ngong Road Children’s Foundation.
Camp and especially the volunteers
The camp was once more an exciting time as usual. The volunteers from the U.S. were awesome since each of them had work to do during Camp. Margaret and Karen helped to make kites; Megan did a role model essay. Ethan taught Frisbees which is a new game for Kenya and Katelyn did a science project about volcanoes. We had two NRCF board members who were also able to attend and participate together with the children, Robert and Edna.

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Meet Tunda Lepore, Primary Department Head, NRCF

Tunda is 29 years old and from a polygamous Maasai family with three wives.  She has fourteen brothers and sisters in total. She grew up in a small village in the Maasai area called Enaibelibel in the midst of the rich, beautiful, and sometimes cruel and biased cultural practices of the Maasai community.  Being born female made her very vulnerable compared to a male child. Today she is one of the few women from the Maasai community who was never circumcised and escaped being married off at a young age.
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AmazonSmile

What is AmazonSmile?
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Friends of Ngong Road every time you shop at amazon.com.  You’ll find the exact same low prices as usual at Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to Friends of Ngong Road. When you shop at Amazon.com using this feature the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible purchases to Friends of Ngong Road at no cost to you.

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Evolution to Post Secondary Program

In 2012, we had our first five students finish high school and in 2013 another twelve students joined their ranks.  We have treated this first group of 17 as a pilot project as we worked to shape the Post-Secondary Program.

Based on our mission

The underpinning of the Post-Secondary Program begins with our mission statement which concludes with these words:  “so they can transform their lives.”  The question is, what is the measure of a life transformed?

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