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Our Current Cause: From October through December, 2006, we will be supporting Watoto Wa Dunia (Children of the World), an Oregon based non-profit that is committed to educating and empowering women and children in Kenya and Nairobi. Their programs include sponsorship for children's schooling in Kenya, a micro-enterprise project for a group of 35 women in Kibera, Nairobi, and a new women and children's center in Kibwesi, Kenya. Please use WNF for searching and shopping, and spread the word so we can help Watoto wa Dunia's vital programs. | |||||||
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Helping the people of Kenya 
Watoto Wa Dunia (Children of the World) is a grassroots organization that works with volunteers in local communities to help impoverished children and communities. Based in Portland, Oregon and Nairobi, Kenya, they have recently opened their first field office in Nairobi, which is supported by a dynamic and dedicated group of Kenyans known as the Kenya Advisory Council. Watoto provides educational, volunteer, social and multicultural projects through which people may improve their own situations and those of their communities. read more about Watoto wa Dunia...
Watoto wa Dunia is working with the Ndiwa Widow's Women Group to build their Empowerment Village. The struggles that these women face are dire. Kalewa and Susana are both part of this group, and even this brief account of their experiences highlights the need for help.
The local work that the Watoto Wa Dunia volunteers do in Kenya is effective and very rewarding. It is also hard and can be very emotionally difficult. Dealing with young children in terrible circumstances is not easy for anyone, but this small group of volunteers endures and puts in a valuable effort year after year. The real story of their work, however, is probably best conveyed by one of the volunteers as she goes out to follow up with the families of sponsored children...
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Imagine a land where over half of the population lives in poverty. Where seven percent of the adult population is living with HIV and the life expectancy is 49 years of age. Where school enrollment continues to decline and health standards have reached a new low. Where per capita annual income is $371 and a 12 percent inflation rate is strangling the working man’s economy ...