We are a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower the lives of impoverished women and children living in Kenya through projects that support their economic empowerment, education and general health. http://www.ofdc.org Read about OFDC and your donations at work: your donation pays women to sew school uniforms for impoverished children, especially girls, so that they can attend school; your donation covers 80% of the costs to build water wells and latrines, parents provide the unskilled labor and the remaining 20%. Asante sana (thank you) for a great year-end fund raiser. http://www.ofdc.org/newsletters/030112.pdf Read how your donations are put to work in our 2011 Annual Report. $55,000 touched the lives of 5,500 women and children living in rural Kenya with training, education, clean water, toilets and mosquito nets. Thanks to you, we celebrated our best year end fund raiser to date! Asante sana (thank you). http://ofdc.org/news/OFDC%202011%20Annual%20Report.pdf Read about OFDC and your donations at work: Olmariko women's training in basic business skills, women's rights under Kenyan law and HIV/AIDS awareness; distribution of mandatory school uniforms to impoverished children at Mulot; distribution of mosquito nets to children; and field report from our annual trip to Kenya to ensure your donation has been spent as reported. Asante sana (thank you). http://www.ofdc.org/newsletters/12114.pdf Read about OFDC and Ololoiboti Namuyak VSLA (Village Saving and Loan programs) potato harvest; Olemeisi gets 6 new school toilets funded with your donation and funds from the community; Catherine in nursing school thanks to your donation; Josephine, first in her family to go to college, graduates!; Scott Frost, OFDC Board Member, goes to Kenya on yearly field trip that verifies projects funded with your donation. Asante sana (thank you). http://www.ofdc.org/newsletters/0911.pdf See your donation at work to empower women, educate children and enhance health for all. http://www.ofdc.org/ Read about OFDC and VSLAs (Village Saving and Loan programs); Limanet gets new toilets funded with your donation and funds from the community; Naomi, HIV positive, gets to go to secondary school thanks to your donation; Thank you for our best year-end fund raiser ever. Asante sana (thank you). http://www.ofdc.org/newsletters/March%202011.pdf Read how your donations are put to work in our 2010 Annual Report. $70,000 touched the lives of 8,000 women and children living in rural Kenya. Thanks to you, we are celebrating our best year end fund raiser to date! Asante sana (thank you). http://ofdc.org/news/OFDC%202010%20Annual%20Report.pdf Read how OFDC got started 12 years ago with microcredit at Kolong village and how it touched and continues to touch the lives of women and children ; Children have sanitation at many rural schools thanks to your donation; Children have new desks, uniforms and can go to school because of you; Megan, US Peace Corps volunteer http://www.ofdc.org/news/1210.pdf Scott recently spent one year as a UN investigator assigned to the Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Peacekeeping Mission. As a staff accountant on the SEC's litagation staff, he brings valuable skills to your donation oversight. http://www.ofdc.org/trustees.html Click here to see where in Kenya, your donations are at work. http://http://www.mapme.com/map/ofdc_projects Megan Browder, US Peace Corps Volunteer, joins Patrick and OFDC to work with women and children projects in rural areas of Kenya's Narok District. http://www.ofdc.org/overseasAdministrators.html Read about Elizabeth Kool's new butchery started with OFDC microcredit; Children at Oiemerru Primary now have clean water from OFDC sponsored well; Children at Ololoiboti Primary receive 50 new school desks from OFDC! http://www.ofdc.org/news/0710.pdf Simon Nkoitoi and Josephine Pasiany, both Maasai Tribe Kenyans, join OFDC as Advisory Board Members. http://www.ofdc.org/trustees.html