Mully Children’s Family (MCF) is a non-profit rehabilitation organization for orphaned, abandoned and abused children. Charles Mulli founded MCF in 1989 by selling all his businesses and channelling his resources into establishing the home. The organization has seen more than 5,000 children rehabilitated with another 2,013 currently in its care. It is the largest home in Kenya and the only one with a strong emphasis on the rehabilitation of girls. MCF was the first Kenyan non profit organization to rescue street children and when the Mulli's established MCF Yatta, it was the first home in Kenya to welcome street girls. MCF provides a family environment where outcast children can reform and receive skills to become independent and valuable contributors to their communities and the country’s economic development.
MCF consists of 3 homes which offer children (from the time of their rescue) a formal education up to grade 12 or the necessary life skills education to successfully earn an income once they graduate.
MCF also operates 3 community day centres which provide food, clothing, medical care, spiritual nourishment and basic primary education to children who have been orphaned but remain in the care of a relative. These day centres offer hope to communities in desperate need of it. Charles's dream of seeing the children who have grown through MCF impact their communities is alive and well. All of the day centres are managed and staffed by MCF's beneficiaries.
The MCF farms provide 60% of the food the family consumes. The farming operations which export produce to the European Union, generate 45% of MCF's annual operating buget. The neighboring communities rely heavily on MCF for employment. 500 staff are employed as farm workers and staff to care for the children. A large percentage of staff are widows or women who are the sole providers for their families.
In addition to offering medical services for the children, MCF's medical clinics also offer free health care to staff and members of their communities. Visiting medical and dental teams also run clinics from the MCF facilities. These clinics attract hundreds of patients who travel many miles to receive free healthcare, which they otherwise, could not afford.
MCF is a light in the community offering neighbors workshops on a variety of topics including farming methods to increase crop yield, environmental conservation which includes the gift of free seedlings and medical seminars on HIV/AIDS. Drought has also hit the semi arid country side and MCF has offered large scale food distribution on many occasions.
2008 was a turning point in MCF's ministry of community compassion. During the post election violence where hundreds of Kenyan's were murdered, thousands of people fled to refugee camps. The largest of these IDP camps (internally displaced persons) was home to 19,000 people. MCF took on the task of facilitating emergency intervention to 7,000 children and mothers who were breastfeeding. MCF bore the responsibility of feeding the children a hot lunch every day and facilitated the creation and staffing of primary and secondary education within the camps. During their year in the camp, International Aid organizations came to Charles asking for help. As these relief organizations packed up and left the bewildered refugees MCF remained faithful in their quest to feed children, care for mothers and their babies, offer trauma and spiritual counselling, provide resources and teachers for schools, and offered financial support to those suffering with medical problems. While the Government officially closed the camps in December of 2008, many broken families and those suffering from medical ailments remain. Over the course of the year, MCF welcomed 500 orphaned and abandoned children from the IDP camps to join their family.
MCF has touched thousands of lives through the servant hearts of Charles and Esther Mulli who despite tremendous obstacles, press on and follow God's call on their hearts. Canadians have been instrumental in partnering with MCF and providing the funds to carry out the mandate of the Mully Children's Family Charitable Foundation of restoring hope to Kenya's orphaned, abandoned and destitute.
Charles offering encouragement to street children