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The Kenya Project
The Kenya Project is a grassroots Christian ministry that has a successful record of helping people and communities. The first mission trip, in August 2003, to the orphanage in Maai Mahiu, Kenya built two classrooms and laid a foundation for two more. The mission also started an HIV support fund and currently sponsors two people who receive monthly vaccine treatments. The treatments allow them to live an extended and productive life. In the year 2000 Zane Wilmon traveled to teach at a missionary school in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. While there he formed a friendship with Jeremiah Kuria, the director of the orphanage in Maai Mahiu. During Zane�s mission he and Jeremiah recognized a need for education at the orphanage. By the friendship formed between these two men and the will of GOD, The Kenya Project was born. |
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| The town is situated on what is known as the �AIDS highway�, a major trade route between Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda. Because Maai Mahiu is the principle truck stop on that highway, prostitution, AIDS and alcoholism are a major problem in the town. The average wage for an adult male is twenty-five cents a day and even at that jobs are scarce. People live at a bare level of subsistence and do whatever they can to survive. | |||||||||||||
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Within the town, the orphanage sits on three acres of land, there 140 children call two dormitories their home. The African Inland Church in Kenya provides basic support in the way of books, food and clothing. The children live there until they are eighteen, on the same plot of land 365 days a year eating the same simple meal every day. They use twigs as toothbrushes, and their only personal space is their tiny wire and foam bunkbeds. Despite the conditions in which they live, the children remain hopeful and their laughter is inspiring. Since its inception The Kenya Project has grown to non-profit status under the name Comfort The Children International. The Kenya Project is just one of many ministries we plan to start. The goals of The Kenya Project are to build and staff the remaining two classrooms, expand the size of the orphanage, provide medical support for more people who have HIV, and minister to the needs of the local people. |
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