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Poverty is the underlying cause of death in children worldwide. 

Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Teaching life skills and basic health care builds self-esteem and gives them hope to change their future. 

• Four million children in Kenya are abandoned or orphaned

• Many have lost their families due to the HIV pandemic

• Families try to survive on as little as $1 a day; so many children are abandoned in the slums to provide for themselves

• The Kibera slum in Nairobi is Africa’s largest slum.  Over 1 million people live on less than one square mile of land

• These children are alone, hungry, desperate and many fight HIV and malaria

• Orphaned street children are the most vulnerable victims in the path of the deadly AIDS virus, and Kenya’s most pressing problem

The Karibu Centre is a project that will help solve this crisis by providing residential and day programs for children and pregnant women with a goal of serving 70,000 each year. 

Karibu Centre is an integrated prevention program for street kids left in the aftermath of the AIDS destruction. Services include programs that will educate, nourish, promote healthy development, and model positive relationships. To reduce the growing number of street children, Karibu Centre also serves pregnant women, abandoned babies and disabled children.   

• $70,000 per year will help 70,000 people: that’s $1 per person

• Karibu Centre will open in the fall of 2008 and is a partnership between the Salvation Army and Orphans Overseas

• The Salvation Army provides the land, buildings and partial renovations, in-country oversight, and project management 

• Orphans Overseas has raised $150,000 and will raise an additional $300,000 for renovations and operations  

We have several upcoming opportunities for volunteer travel to Kenya, including construction trips, curriculum development, and staff training sessions. If you would like to find out more about these opportunities and how you could fit in, please fill out our volunteer form. 

All of our programs are supported by Evening of Hope.