Lacking Cents, Not Sense
David and his mother in front of their home in Kissimu, Kenya Dear Friends, In Kenya you have to pass a special exam to attend […]
Read MoreDavid and his mother in front of their home in Kissimu, Kenya Dear Friends, In Kenya you have to pass a special exam to attend […]
Read MoreNancy (second from left), her grandmother and two other friends holding the material we bought for her sewing machine Dear Friends, Isn’t it amazing how […]
Read MoreIt's difficult to describe Nairobi's Mathare slum, because there is nothing to which it can be compared where you and I live. But try to imagine 500,000 people crammed into a hillside community of tens of thousands of tiny shacks clad with rusted pieces of corrugated metal. They are akin to structures where you might store old tires that you would never plan on using again. Imagine just a few water pumps and public outhouses to serve all those people. Imagine the stench of open sewage and rotting garbage permeating the air. That's Mathare.
Read MoreChildren in one of the iron classrooms in Saboti, Kenya Dear Friends, As the midday African sun beats mercilessly down on the galvanized metal roofing […]
Read MoreAbigael Chemtai at the Kapenguria School for the Blind. Dear Friends, God takes even the worst of circumstances and changes them to orchestrate good and […]
Read MoreBesides food, the one thing that impoverished people around the world desire for their children is an education. They know that education is their children's only hope to escape the cycle of poverty. In many developing nations, however, public education is not free. Consequently, we receive many requests for tuition assistance.
Read MoreOpportunities. More than anything else, that is what the poor around the world lack. An opportunity to gain a valuable education, a marketable skill, employment, tools for a trade, or a loan to start a business can make the difference between poverty and prosperity. That is why Heaven's Family works to provide, through our numerous focused funds, various opportunities to the "least of these" among Christ's followers. Opportunities give the poor a chance to help themselves through their own efforts.
Read MoreJairus Wanyama could not read this sentence. That's because he attended a public school in Kenya where the student-teacher ratio is 100 to 1. Although Kenya provides all of its children with free primary education, the government can't afford the number of teachers that are actually needed. Consequently, many students like Jairus are lost in the crowd and left behind.
Read MoreA new Kenyan flag at Heaven’s Family Christian Academy, in Saboti, Kenya Dear Friends, If they knew about it, children in the U.S. and Canada […]
Read MoreEarly one morning in January of 2003, at the doorsteps of thousands of simple school buildings across Kenya, more than a million children showed up for school who had not attended the day before. The reason? Kenya's newly-elected government had abolished school fees for primary school children. Impoverished parents were thrilled that their children would now have an educational opportunity that had previously been denied them.
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