Water for the Bondo Villagers!

For the first time in their lives, the villagers at Bondo, the site of Horizon's newest micro-community, have access to clean water.  The well that your support allowed Horizon to drill hit a water source so vast that it will provide clean drinking water to the children who will live there AND the hundreds of neighbors in the surrounding villages.

Before this well existed, villagers only access to drinking water was miles away from Lake Victoria, and the polluted water from the lake kept everyone sick.  Now, no more long walks carrying heavy containers.  Clean water for everyone!

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Lights on Micro-Project with Horizon Initiative

Turning on the lights in rural Africa one family at a time. Learn more at http://www.horizoninitiative.org/donate/micro-project/.

Solar Lantern Project 

One fifth of the world population still relies on oil lamps and candles for lighting given the unrealistic cost to connect to the grid. Thirty-eight billion dollars is spent annually to fuel kerosene lamps which only fill cramped homes with dim light and dirty fumes. Mothers, most often widows, walk miles each day just to charge their cell phones since most business transactions occur via mobile credit. Hours spent walking and poor lighting means less time working and less income.

To address the lack of access to electricity in the rural areas surrounding our micro-communities, Horizon Initiative has developed a community outreach initiative to distribute solar-powered LED lanterns to neighboring families as an off-grid solution. Not only do these innovative solar kits provide bright, long-lasting light, they are also equipped with adapters to charge cell phones. These simple provisions empower women and their families with opportunity that multiplies, giving mothers light by which to work, children light by which to study, clean air for a healthier home, kerosene savings, and increased safety. Horizon has distributed nearly 500 lanterns to households across Western Kenya, with plans to provide 1000 more.

“Just $50 (USD) provides a family with a solar kit and helps us to grow this community outreach initiative. To fund a solar kit and light up a Kenyan home, click below.”
— Horizon Initiatiative
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Trip to Kenya with Aerial Development

Visiting Kenya is always feels like coming home.  We were excited to take a team from the Aerial Development Group in Nashville who sponsors an orphan in Kenya with every new house they sell.  Its always a thrill to introduce people to a country will love so much.

We were so thrilled with the progress at our new site at Bondo! Fence, gate, roads, a well, and a water tower!

Hello From Africa!

Hello everyone,

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I wanted to share with you a little about a project that my wife, Karen, and I are working on. We are currently in Africa at an orphanage partnering with Horizon Initiative.  Below is a picture of my wife and some women who work at the orphanage standing in front of their new brick oven.

We are here to help empower these children and adults to become self sustaining individuals.

Horizon Initiative is an organization founded with a core competency of Empowering The Poor To Self Sustainability. We achieve this through developing Micro Communities that are backed by Venture Capitalists who leverage their ability to generate wealth and establish Corporate Sponsorship Partners.

By empowering the poor to attack the World's central challenge of alleviating poverty, we implicitly believe it is not just about giving money, rather developing self sustaining individuals and communities.