kindfund.com

By September 2003 Ken and Pamela Dobbin had been visiting Tharaka in Eastern Province Kenya for 6 years in support of a Christian Charity based in Belfast when they received an invitation to come North and show God's love to orphans and poor children.

Getting Started:

Their first visit in Feb 04 to NE Kenya, a dry pastoral area recovering from some years of trouble led to the establishment of Kindfund. As a result of this and further visits.

Kindfund supports:

- 1,500+ children and adults in 15 villages,

- 700 nursery school children from very poor circumstances (providing 3-6yr olds daily porridge and school uniforms, support for the teachers and cooks),

- 38 jobs,

- 125 orphans in three homes at Isiolo, Ngaremara and Wamba with potential to increase this to 170 children

- 200 orphans and poor primary age children at Wamba, Archers Post and N'garemara with 1 meal per day,

- 3 classroom assistants at the local primary schools (to help reduce the class size),

- 28 young people boarding through secondary education and Polytechnic ,

- 7 deaf children boarding at Isiolo nursery and primary school for the hearing impaired ,

- 1 Deaf young lady through training as a tailoress including providing her with a singer treadle sewing machine, a second training at our Ngaremara base as a Nursery School assistant

- 15 Blind/partially sighted children boarding at the Blind Unit attached to Kambi Ya Juu Primary School Isiolo. This is a private unit and Kindfund has assumed the role of main sponsor for feeding and equipping the children and maintenance of the premises.

- 130 elderly, mainly widows with 1kg of maize flour per week

- many poor through medical treatment at local clinics and hospitals, and

- BES Bible Club bringing the scriptures to young people on the programme.

Kindfund has financed:

- a permanent 50 bed Children's Home a Manager/staff House with 5 bedrooms and a Guest House at Wamba (opened October 2008)

- a permanent 50 bed Children's Home,  two buildings with two permanent classrooms a kitchen and store, staff accommodation and a Children's Home at Ngaremara where at March 2010 a purpose built 50 bed Children's home is close to completion and a shelter has been built to house the daily feeding programme

- 4 classrooms in traditional villages,

- a house for visitors at Ngaremara

- ventilated pit latrines

- Beds, mattresses, sheets, and furnishings for childrens homes'

- Repair of two solar lighting systems at childrens homes'

- tables and chairs, cooking utensils, bowls, spoons and mugs, books, pencils and materials, school desks and blackboards,

- 6 bore holes and  Afridev hand pumps drawing water from 40+ ft plus 2 Moneymaker foot pumps

- the repair of 2 village windmill driven water pumps and three village hand pumps, and serviced a generator used for pumping water at the Samburu village of Lareta,

- 200 New Testaments and Bibles,

- Turkana booklets on Women of the bible,

- modern bee hives for a women's agri group, and

- beads for women’s groups and is actively working with a group of women to enhance their beading skills.

At Archers Post we were blessed when the British Army following negotiations provided a permanent kitchen and store for our orphan feeding programme as one of their community projects.

We are:

- digging new boreholes as the right opportunities are available. We installed our 6th Afridev handpump at the new Ngaremara Secondary School in February 2010. As at March we are completing a borehole at Agum in Ngaremara and digging another at Sokitey where we will place our Rendille Children's Home

- working to improve our chidrens homes with increased accommodation and facilities

- exploring ways of bringing Jesus to all those to whom we have reached out. Recently we have been experimenting with Story4all - the oral Gospell and are working with YWAM to develop Christian outreach