Friends of Ngong Road

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

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Help Transform Lives – Contribute to Our Annual Appeal!

The students we serve face more challenges than most of us can imagine. They learn early on that to survive they must embrace resilience, facing their challenges with hope, drive, passion, courage, and kindness.

We are grateful to all our sponsors who make classroom education possible for individual students.  Sponsorships cover the costs of school fees and uniforms, but Friends of Ngong Road also provides unique program support to empower students to succeed and transform their lives. These include our Life Skills Program, career counseling, employment support, basic medical care, the Saturday Program, computer certification, case managers, etc.  Our Annual Appeal directly supports these initiatives. 

Thank you to the many friends who have already donated to our annual appeal.  We are making great progress but still need additional supporters to achieve our goal of raising $170,000 by year-end. 

Your support will be DOUBLED thanks to the $85,000 matching gift from the Ted and Kathy Truscott Family Foundation.  

It’s not too late!  Help us transform lives.

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Pentair Foundation joins us in transforming lives!

Friends of Ngong Road is pleased to announce it has received a $15,000 grant from the Pentair Foundation. â€śThe generous grant from the Pentair Foundation will allow us to ensure all children in our program have access to education, safety and well-being services, and a supportive community. It will help children with so many barriers to education gain access to the tools and resources to transform their lives through education,” says Lacey Kraft, Development Director.

Pentair Foundation Logo

Pentair, a diversified global manufacturer, aims to improve the quality of life of people around the world by helping its customers produce more food, energy, and efficiency from each drop of water while protecting people and the environment. The Pentair Foundation supports this mission through philanthropic efforts focused on providing greater access to clean, safe water and food, investing in sustainable agriculture to increase food production, promoting STEM education, and supporting the communities where its employees live and work.

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Partnership with Newcomb Institute

New to camp last summer was a partnership with the Newcomb Institute of Tulane University. Sally Kenney of the Newcomb Institute helped launch the program where students studied Women and Social Development in Kenya prior to traveling. Once they arrived, days were filled with meeting the Friends of Ngong Road staff, children, and families, seeing the animals, learning more about Kenya, and of course, camp! The Tulane students each prepared lessons that they taught to students at camp and participated in the daily activities of camp. Read more about the partnership in the Newcomb newsletter.

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Two Years in Nairobi

Luther Alumni Magazine featured our very own Michael and Leah Switzer! Read more about their two years in Kenya where Michael helped start Karibu Loo, the portable sanitation company that supports the charitable mission to help educate kids. “The board of Friends of Ngong Road believes that with the addition of earned income in Nairobi, Kenya through Karibu Loo, our mission of educating some of the world’s poorest children will become much more sustainable.”

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Portable Sanitation Association International Supports Karibu Loo

Friends of Ngong Road and Karibu Loo are the grateful recipients of the Portable Sanitation Association International’s World Sanitation Day generosity! “The PSAI has long been concerned about global issues. It’s natural for us to support an organization like Friends of Ngong Road that is using portable sanitation as a means to address the need for sanitation alternatives in one of the world’s busiest cities,” says Karleen Kos, Executive Director for the PSAI. “On World Portable Sanitation Day we celebrate the benefits of the resources our industry provides. By sharing the proceeds of WPSD sales with a worthy organization like FoNR, we are helping young people receive an education and providing their community with a valuable sanitation alternative.” Thank you PSAI!