By Kirsty Erridge
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Around 80% of children living in orphanages in East Africa have living family members but are growing up in orphanages due to poverty. Families are forced to make the agonising decision to give up their children because poverty meant they couldn’t afford to provide for them themselves. For three years our Senior Programme Officer […]
We are honoured to work alongside our care reform partners in Kenya who coordinate family strengthening projects that reunite family members after years of separation. Around 80% of children living in orphanages in East Africa have living family members but are growing up in orphanages due to poverty. Families are forced to make the agonising decision […]
Our Seed of Hope vocational training centre in Nairobi works alongside talented, hard-working students like Linet enabling them to acquire the life and business skills that form the foundations of building a rewarding future. Linet’s story is one of resilience, determination and inspiration. She is a young mother of twins who, after graduating from Seed […]
We’ve just published our Annual Report for April-December 2019 with the Charities Commission. This will be the last Annual Report filed under our previous name of Vision Africa: Give a Child a Future. The report covers a 9 month period instead of 12 as we are changing our financial year to now be January-December from […]
By Vic Hancock Fell
During these strange times, it is important to reflect on the success stories of the young people we work with at Seed of Hope. With your generous support, we can stay forward-looking and optimistic about the bright futures that await them. Jacob is the Seed of Hope School Captain and in his second year […]
Evans (second from the left) has been a student at Seed of Hope Nairobi since 2019 and is an inspiring example of someone who is forging his own brighter, independent future from a challenging background. One of six siblings, Evans moved from a rural area to Nairobi to live with his older brother […]
Raising Futures Kenya COVID-19 Response At this time of great concern for us all, we sincerely hope that you and your loved ones are in good health. It is an anxious time for all of us at Raising Futures Kenya – both personally and in terms of how we respond as an organisation. […]
We are thrilled to be able to announce that earlier this year, Danish charity Help Every Day, donated an amazing £25,000 to Raising Futures Kenya to support our work with specialist schools for children with disabilities. Help Every Day is a not-for-profit organisation that invites people around the world to make their compassion count […]
To all of our wonderful regular monthly donors – THANK YOU! Your regular support is invaluable to us, it enables us to plan our future work and to support even more young people in Kenya. The past year has been transformational for Raising Futures Kenya – we’ve changed our name from Vision Africa, registered […]
Written by Sherry Waweru, Senior Programmes Officer at Raising Futures Kenya. Seed of Hope provides more than skills training to our young people across the counties we are working in Kenya. The majority of the young people have said that Seed of Hope has enabled them to grow; spiritually, mentally, emotionally and also in different […]
