by jenn | Sep 4, 2024 | KCEF Updates
by Craig Hammon, KCEF Board Chair As summer ends and a new academic year begins here, I wanted to reaffirm what a difference your prayers and support are making for our children in Kenya, where it has been a hard and challenging year. The year began with runaway...
by jenn | Jul 23, 2024 | KCEF Updates
Many of you know that, in addition to our work with primary schools in the Nairobi slums, we partner with a group of pastors in the Kiandutu slum in Thika, just outside Nairobi. These faithful pastors and their churches are working with the hundreds of children who...
by jenn | Apr 17, 2024 | KCEF Updates
Dear friends and partners of KCEF: I am writing this as the second term of school is beginning for students in Kenya. They have just returned from what the Ministry of Education calls a “three week holiday” That sounds pleasant, but frankly it is not much of a...
by jenn | Mar 5, 2024 | KCEF Updates
Dear KCEF Friends and Partners, After a very successful week of visiting our schools in February, I wanted to find a way to share with you—friends of KCEF—some idea of the stark contrast between what happens outside the walls of our schools and what happens within...
by jenn | Jan 5, 2024 | KCEF Updates
Dear Friends of Kijabe Children’s Education Fund, In December, we wrote to you about a matching grant of $30,000. I’m delighted to report that your generous response, totaling significantly more than $30,000, qualifies us for the entire matching gift. This is a...
by jenn | Nov 27, 2023 | KCEF Updates
Most of us anticipate Christmas with joy and excitement even though the parties and pageants and sheer abundance—especially of the food all around us—can begin to feel overwhelming. As you can imagine, the situation in the slums of Nairobi is very different. Recent...
