Opportunity Fund for Developing Countries (OFDC)

OFDC Overseas Administrators
Patrick Ngigi Women, Children & Health Maasai & Interior Region Narok District, Kenya	Qualifications and Experience: We have worked with Patrick for 11 years and can attest to his tireless efforts to improve the lives of impoverished women and children living in rural areas of Kenya. Patrick works diligently to ensure your donation reaches those most in need. For accountability, we require he send receipts, photos and reports of disbursement of your donated funds before additional funds are transfered. Patrick holds a Bachelor's of Education degree from Kenyatta University, funded in part by your donations to OFDC. This is our way of saying thanks for his diligent oversight of putting your donations to work. While volunteering as our overseas administrator, Patrick has worked as headmaster at many remote, rural schools (having no access running water or electircity). He knows first hand the hardships children in Kenya face. Patrick is currently on leave from his headmaster position so he can complete his Masters of Education thesis at Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya. A part of your donation goes to a small stipend for Patrick so he can support his family while on leave. As always, he continues to oversee disbursement of donations with reports complete with receipts, reconciles and photos. Patrick works diligently to ensure that needy children, especially girls and AIDS orphans, can attend school. He makes home visits to assess the needs of sponsored children, and monthly visits to schools on "parents' day" to visit orphaned children sponsored by your OFDC donation. He works with school parent committees to raise funds to pay for the transport of desks, purchased by OFDC donations, to remote schools. His hard work is verified by the numerous awards and recognitions he has received from community and parent councils, the Narok District Board of Education and the Kenyan government Department of Education. Patrick established a girls' safe house in Narok where girls can seek shelter from female genital mutilation (FGM, circumcision) and forced child marriage. With a sponsor, girls can continue their education. With your donation, Patrick organizes women's empowerment programs suchs as Village Saving and Loan groups (VSLA) and health training; distributes bed nets so children can sleep protected from malaria carrying mosquitoes; and oversees disbursement of funds for the building of latrines, water wells and catchments at rural schools so children can have access to improved sanitation and clean water (parent's raising 20% of costs and offering their unskilled labor).

Agnes Nkoitoi Children's School Sponsorship Melelo, Kenya	Qualifications and Experience: Ms. Nkiotoi was to be married off at the age of 13. She protested but had no voice. Miraculously Agnes found a sponsor so that she could continue her education. At Maasai Girls High School, she was made school prefect (school leader). Agnes received her diploma from Mosoriot Teachers' College. She is now a Senior Teacher at Olpukoti Primary School. Agnes is very grateful for your donations, received through OFDC, so that she can send girls to school who otherwise would be circumcised (FGM) and married off at an early age. She reports that with these funds she is able to purchase undergarments for girls who have never had them. "Now," she writes, "these children can play freely and be like the other children. Asante sana (thank you)."

Overseas Volunteer-Power
Megan Browder United States Peace Corps Volunteer Kenya Women & Children Maasai & Interior Region Narok District, Kenya	Qualifications and Experience: Megan, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. Megan worked in finance with Lehman Brothers and, later, Barclays Capital as an Assistant Vice President in Capital Markets. While at Lehman Brothers, she served as a mentor for women and minorities and in 2009 decided to volunteer full time. After volunteering as an ESL teacher in Morocco with Cross-Cultural Solutions, Megan joined US Peace Corps Kenya where she assists Patrick with building Mission with a Vision's infrastructure and women and children empowerment projects.