KENYA LOCATIONS

Eldoret	This is the parent home and it is situated in Eldoret town, 320 kilometres from the capital city Nairobi. It is located on 3/4 of an acre 10 minutes walk from town in Pioneer Estate. This home reaches out to needy children in Western Kenya, which comprises three major provinces which include Rift Valley province, Western province and Nyanza Province. This home saw the first 3 children join the MCF.
Ndalani	Ndalani, the second home of MCF, was established in 1996. Located on an 80 acre piece of land, It is about 108 Km southeast of Nairobi. Ndalani is in the heartland of Charles' and Esther's Kamba tribe.   As such, it is relarively insulated from the problems of inter racial violence that recently affected Kenya.  Ndalani has the ability to care for over 500 children.  The children attend on site school from nursery school to 12 and the high performance of the students has earned the Ndalani school  the #1 in their district for years.  The children attend daily devotions and have access to on site Pastors as well as on site  medical clinic staffed 24-7.  A dental clinic is almost complete but will rely on visiting dentists for care.   Programs here  also include  technical education  and horticulture farming programs for self-sustainability.
Yatta	Women and girls constitute the majority of poor people in Kenya due to their lower social status.  Because women lack education and  life skills to enable employment, they have a high level of dependency on men.   Girls turn to early marriages or life on the street for survival.  In the streets, girls become involved in criminal activity to survive which leads to  drug dependence.  Girls are sexually exploited and prostitution is a means to survive.  Due to their forced lifestyles they are exposed to all sorts of ailments ranging from health problems such as STD’s, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and skin diseases. They lack life’s basic needs such as food, clothing, medical care, shelter and education. MCF established a third home in 2001 to specifically care for these girls.   MCF Yatta is a center where the girls’ physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs are met.  The project seeks to assist the poor street girls/women by offering various training courses such as tailoring, dressmaking, clothing design, food and nutrition, child care, agriculture, small business management and  book keeping to enable them to establish a business entrepreneurship to make their families self sustaining. Primary health care, cookery, child care, housekeeping and general home science are  emphased  in order to improve their living standards and prepare them for future responsibilities in their families.
Kangundo	This project began in 2004 and targetted  destitute and orphaned children  living with a guardian. The children come  from very poor family backgrounds and the majority of them live with their aged grandparents as their parents died of  HIV/AIDS. The children attend school and are offered  health care services, meals and other basic services. The school in this project is from grade one to eight.  Some of the children who complete their grade eight level from MCF Kangundo have joined MCF Yatta and Ndalani to further their education and receive vocational training. The MCF supported program at Kangundo has continued to post good grades in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education. To increase school performance MCF began a feeding programme that has seen class attendance marketly improved .  The program is currently maxed at 150 children however, MCF continues to be overwhelmed by support requests from community members.
Vipingo	In 2005,  MCF began a day care project in Vipingo an area filled with squatters of mixed ethnic groups. With few opportunities, most families in the area lead a very poor lifestyle. School attendance is low because children are forced to drop school to engage in child labour, or commercial sex work.  The boy child preference syndrome has made matters worse for the girls in the region. Child prostitution becomes the forced  fate  for young girls who raise money to feed their families.   Sex tourists visit this area and prey on the vulnerable girls who are oblivious to HIV/AIDS,  sexually transmitted diseases, abuses and unwanted pregnancies.   MCF came into the region and offered hope  by providing educational, medical and feeding facilities. The project has progressed commendably and has proved a much needed aid to residents of the area.  The children who attend school are fed lunch each day.   Friday afternoon is a difficult  time as many  children know they will not eat they return to school on Monday.  The primary school cares for over 200 children and hopes to expand so more children can attend.  MCF is prayerful that they can one day offer secondary school and vocational training to the children and the community.
Kipsongo	MCF has intensified feeding programmes for street children mainly in Kipsongo slum in Kitale town. This has reduced the number of children loitering on the Kitale streets. It is also important to note that those children who had dropped out of the nearby schools due to lack of food, are now staying in school because of the lunch feeding centre.  Poverty stricken parents face terrible choices when they cannot feed their children.  The programme caters for over 173 children.