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August 28, 2012
Fifteen DC metro students traveled to Kenya earlier this year for an eye-opening experience and have now launched a campaign to raise school funds for impoverished youth.
After spending three weeks visiting students in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, teenagers from Potomac, Chevy Chase, McLean and Washington, DC, are launching the $12 for 12 Campaign, in an effort to help send some of their new friends to school. The campaign aims to get 2,012 people to donate $12 in 12 days to help 12 top graduating high school seniors in Kenya go on to higher education. They have already raised $14,000... Read More
July 9, 2012
Learn about the different programs run by Children of Kibera Foundation and meet two of the children -- Mercy and Fred -- sponsored as they take you on a walk to their homes in Kibera, their schools, and their future ambitions. ... " target="_blank">Read More
November 9, 2010
Dear Friends of Children of Kibera Foundation,
Thank you for showing an interest in our organization. In order to learn more about the foundation, we cordially invite you to attend our fundraising dinner, “Feeding Minds, Building Futures”, on 11 December 2010 at the Panafric Hotel\'s Simba Room (Mezzanine Level).
Starting at 6:00 PM, students and professionals alike will be sharing their success stories and how they managed to overcome the obstacles they face growing up in Kibera. You will learn more about our projects and hear from our high school scholars who have pushed themselv... Read More
October 11, 2010
Ken Okoth grew up in Kibera, a huge, overpopulated slum in Nairobi, Kenya, lacking sufficient housing, running water and connection to the municipal sewage system or electric grid. He lived with his mother, Angeline, five siblings and other family members in a 12-by-12-foot, one-room house, before earning scholarships to boarding school, college and, ultimately, Georgetown’s graduate school. For more than five years as a Washington-area teacher and chairman of a foundation that uplifts Kenyan youth, he has helped expand, through education, the horizons of students who “work... Read More