"...support, education and opportunities in a caring and nurturing environment..."
About Mutaho"...there are hundreds children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS..."
Meet the team"We met through our mutual desire to make a difference..."
AIDS in Africa"...more than eleven million children have been orphaned by AIDS..."
What We Do
The Mutaho Children’s Foundation (MCF) aspires to improve the lives of children and their communities by providing support, education and opportunities for children.
| In Kenya the children of poorer families are not able to finish school as they are not able to pay secondary school fees. As a consequence they are forced to leave school after class eight. A recent estimate suggests that only 42% of girls, and 40% of boys attend high school, many more drop out along the way due to lack of school fees. We at MCF think that as a global community we can do better by these kids. The MCF is aims address this problem by providing school fees, uniforms and taking care of the basic needs of 100 orphans in Mutaho. This will assist not just those children but also their families (the Aunties and Uncles who care for them) by lessening the financial pressure on families in the community. This allows families to free up funds which may be used to send their children to school. Meanwhile the MCF projects and supporters are able to fund the orphan’s secondary school fees. The Mutaho Children’s Foundation runs self-sustainable business ventures the profits of which support the orphans and the community.
These small businesses provide opportunities for members of the community to develop new skills in finance, small business management and trades. More importantly, these businesses provide opportunities for members of the community to exit the cycle of poverty and become financially secure and independent.
Although MCF still has a long way to come before MCF can become completely self-sustainable, I am still very proud of what we have accomplished in just three short years. I think the most exciting thing about all of our projects is that not only are we able to contribute to the education of the children we support, we are also able to assist the greater community with employment and educational opportunities in an area which previously had nothing to offer. Our children as they grow older are also becoming involved in our projects, from teaching in the computer college, to helping in the tree nursery or around the farm, through to assisting with the establishment of projects such as the Fish Farm all of which help them develop skills which they will be able to utilise in the future. In addition to providing for the basic needs of the children and education for the orphaned children of Mutaho the MCF is also working towards the following:
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