by jenn | Jul 22, 2025 | KCEF Updates
In just three weeks, our family will move our middle daughter into her first year of college. A week later my eldest will be back on her campus, and our son will start his sophomore year of high school. As they’ve been working hard, saving for college, and enjoying...
by jenn | Jun 24, 2025 | KCEF Updates
An old Sara Groves song has been playing over and over in my mind since I returned from Kenya two weeks ago: I saw what I saw and I can’t forget it I heard what I heard and I can’t go back I know what I know and I can’t deny it Something on the road, cut me to the...
by jenn | Apr 1, 2025 | KCEF Updates
Dear Friends of Kijabe Children’s Education Fund, We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Jukanovich has been selected as our very first Executive Director. Her appointment has been made possible by a generous donor who recognized the need for KCEF to move from a...
by jenn | Nov 25, 2024 | KCEF Updates
Dear Friends and Partners of KCEF: We write to you at this holiday season to give thanks for you and for what we have accomplished together in 2024. It is not an exaggeration to say that your prayers and generosity are transforming the lives of children and families...
by jenn | Oct 8, 2024 | KCEF Updates
By Jud Reis, Vice Chair KCEF Board I’ve just returned from my third trip in the last two years to visit the schools we support in Nairobi. I’ve become almost accustomed to the significant day to day challenges there, but every now and then an extraordinary event...
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...
