Current Project:

Bondo, Kenya, Africa

Creating our next micro-community at Bondo is an extraordinary goal, but together, we can reach our destination: a new home and haven of empowerment for hundreds more orphaned children.  For this project we are partnering with Horizon Initiative, who has built a sustainable micro community model and has lots of success in this area. 

Horizon rescues orphaned children and empowers them to a life of self-sustainability and purpose.  They do that through a unique “micro-community” model that consists of a children’s home, classrooms, life skills school, recreational facilities and on-site agricultural businesses.  Those on-site enterprises offer training opportunities for the children as well as generate revenue that offsets a significant portion of the micro-community’s operating expenses.

Self-sustainability is at the core of everything Horizon does, from the micro-community, to the children to the organization itself.  Horizon’s “inheritance program” equips the children with a higher education, vocational instruction or agricultural training and land to ensure they become economic producers rather than consumers.  Further to Horizon’s goal of self-sustainability, the organization’s administrative costs are totally paid for through Board members’ fees and other investment income, so 100% of all outside donations can go directly to supporting the children.

ABOUT BONDO:

The Bondo District is located in the Nyanza Province bordering Lake Victoria.
While the area’s main industries are fishing and family farming, the province
has the least annual rainfall in the region, which results in unfulfilled harvests,
poor drinking water, and widespread poverty.