Ministry Focus Areas

Where we serve — and why it matters.

The communities where Kenya’s Kids serves share a common reality: life here is extraordinarily hard. Drought arrives without warning, political instability disrupts families and economies, unemployment leaves fathers with no way to provide, and addiction tears at the fabric of communities that are already stretched thin. In a region where infant mortality is tragically high and child abandonment is a daily tragedy, the children we serve are among the most vulnerable on earth.

Through our deep and trusted partnership with the Africa Inland Church (AIC), Kenya’s Kids brings more than programs — we bring presence, relationship, and the love of God. We provide food, shelter, clothing, and education. We invest in the physical infrastructure of homes and campuses. We train leaders who will multiply our impact for generations. And we believe, with every project and every child, that hope is never wasted.

Explore each of our focus areas below to learn how your support is making a difference on the ground — and how much more is possible.

Mbooni Children’s Home

Machakos Region · Southeast of Nairobi

Perched in the rugged, beautiful hills above Machakos, southeast of Nairobi, Mbooni Children’s Home is the heartbeat of Kenya’s Kids. For more than four decades, this home has been a place of refuge, belonging, and transformation for children who had nowhere else to go.

The Home was shaped for most of its history by the remarkable ministry of Rev. Benjamin Kamende, whose faithful leadership laid a foundation of love and discipline that still marks every child who comes through the gates. Today, Mbooni thrives under the capable leadership of Mr. Julius Munguti and his wife Elizabeth, a Lady Pastor in the AIC, who bring both pastoral warmth and practical vision to the work.

Currently home to more than 100 children, Mbooni has the capacity to welcome up to 75 additional children as resources allow. Kenya’s Kids has invested significantly in the buildings and grounds — improving facilities, expanding housing, and creating dedicated educational spaces to ensure the Home is not just habitable, but genuinely nurturing.

In November 2023, a new building was dedicated in memory of Dr. Bob Reed — a founding board member of Kenya’s Kids — and Mrs. Wendy Gaillard, beloved daughter of our Chairman, Mr. Bill Gaillard.

That building stands as more than bricks and mortar. It is a memorial to the people who believed in this work before it was easy, and a promise to the children who will call it home that they are worth investing in.

Kathonzweni Children’s Home

Makueni County · 150km SE of Nairobi

Set in the rural landscape of Makueni County, 150 kilometers southeast of Nairobi, Kathonzweni is a community of approximately 75,000 people clustered near the county capital of Wote. Government census data tells a sobering story: more than half of Kathonzweni’s residents live below the poverty line. For the children of this community, the absence of basic stability — food, shelter, safety — is not an abstraction. It is daily life.

Kenya’s Kids began partnering with Kathonzweni Children’s Home in 2023, and from the beginning it has been a relationship marked by momentum. We have undertaken extensive improvements to the physical facility — upgrading water systems, plumbing, and electrical infrastructure — ensuring that the home meets the standard every child deserves.

Under the energetic new leadership of Manager Mr. Elijah Mwanthi, Kathonzweni has already expanded the number of children it serves, and the path forward is bright. With continued investment and the right partnerships, this Home has the potential to grow to serve approximately 150 children — a transformational number for a community where need is so acute.

Kathonzweni is one of the newer chapters in the Kenya’s Kids story, but it is already one of the most exciting. We believe the best is yet to come for this community.

Ngelani Community

70km East of Nairobi · Community Model

High in the hills, 70 kilometers east of Nairobi, sits Ngelani — a small, remote village that ranks among the most rural and economically vulnerable communities in all of Kenya. There are no easy roads in or out. And for many families here, a single drought or illness can unravel everything.

Our ministry in Ngelani looks different from our children’s homes, and intentionally so. Rather than removing children from their families, we come alongside the families themselves. Kenya’s Kids currently supports a dozen children and their households through a holistic model of family development: providing food assistance, covering educational costs and supplies, and ensuring children have what they need to stay in school and stay together with the people who love them.

This community-embedded approach — keeping children within their families and communities while lifting the entire household — is something we believe in deeply. Ngelani is a pilot of what this model can accomplish, and we see it as a significant area of future growth for Kenya’s Kids. As we look at the needs across rural Kenya, we recognize that not every answer looks like a residential home. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is strengthen the family that is already there.

Kima Technical College

Mombasa Road · Near Konza Technopolis

Not every child we serve is young. Some are young adults — teenagers and twenty-somethings who grew up without opportunity and who need a skilled trade, a credential, and a chance to build a life. Kima Technical College exists for them.

Located 100 kilometers from Nairobi along the Mombasa Road — Kenya’s primary trade corridor connecting the capital to the major port city of Mombasa — Kima sits at the crossroads of enormous potential. Just a short drive from the college lies Konza Technopolis, the flagship development project of Kenya’s Vision 2030 Economic Plan. As businesses, technology firms, and industry pour into this region, the need for a skilled, trained local workforce grows by the day. Kima is positioned to meet that need.

The College offers vocational and technical training in:

Automotive Mechanics
Electrical Systems
Welding and Fabrication
Masonry
Textile and Dressmaking
Hair and Beauty

Since Kenya’s Kids began its partnership with Kima in 2023, enrollment has doubled — and there is capacity to add another 100 students. In January 2024, Kenya’s Kids funded the drilling of a new well that now supplies fresh water and plumbing to more than 15 buildings on Kima’s 19-acre campus, while also enabling crop irrigation that moves the school toward greater self-sufficiency.

In 2026, Kenya’s Kids launched the Kima Agricultural Centre — a dedicated training facility for agricultural technology and animal husbandry. Students gain hands-on expertise that prepares them both for careers in Kenya’s growing agricultural sector and for a future where Kima grows much of its own food. Additional produce is sold in the local market, creating a sustainable revenue stream for the College.

We are working closely with the Kenyan national government, Makueni County officials, local business leaders, and community partners to chart Kima’s long-term future. This is one of the most exciting chapters in Kenya’s Kids history — and one that will shape lives long after the children we serve today have grown into the leaders Kenya needs.

Leadership Training

AIC Partnership · 1,000+ Leaders Annually

Children grow up. And when they do, the communities they return to — and the leaders who shape those communities — will either support their flourishing or undermine it. That is why Leadership Training is not a footnote in the Kenya’s Kids story. It is a cornerstone.

Since 2013, Kenya’s Kids has partnered with the Africa Inland Church to deliver annual leadership development training to pastors and church leaders across the region. Each year, more than 1,000 men and women gather to be sharpened, challenged, and equipped. The curriculum is both deeply practical and profoundly character-forming, with sessions covering:

Integrity and ethical leadership
What it means to be an authentic leader
Leading the family well
Delivering difficult messages with courage and grace
Necessary endings — leading through seasons of change
Leading with resilience in times of transition

The multiplication effect of this investment is difficult to quantify — but it is enormous. Each trained pastor returns to a congregation, a family, a neighborhood. Each leader who learns to lead with integrity models something for the next generation that no food program or building project can replicate on its own.

Strong children need strong communities. Strong communities need strong leaders. This is how lasting change happens.

Leadership Training is how Kenya’s Kids invests not just in the children of today, but in the Kenya of tomorrow.