Amina Mohamed
Educate Children
Enhance Health for All
Naroosura Area, Kenya

Amina works diligently to ensure your donation reaches those most in need. For accountability, we require she send receipts, reconciliation and photos before we disburse funds to her for new projects. With your donation, Amina pays local tailors to sew uniforms which are given to impoverished and orphaned children so they can go to school like other children. Amina oversees construction of toilets at local schools so children have access to sanitation and girls stay in school. The local clinic recently made a request for toilets. As always, the communities must raise 20% of the costs of toilet and water projects before your OFDC donation is put to work. Plans are underway to distribute mosquito nets to protect children from malaria carrying mosquitoes.

Amina is proud to tell you she and her husband are "learned" people. Both completed secondary school in the arid, rural area in which they were raised, south of Narok and towards the Tanzanian border. Amina learned computer skills from missionary friends she met after her mother died and before she married. Amina is a member of her Area Advisory Council. One task of the Advisory Council is to rescue young girls who are being forced into child marriage and put them in school. Amina receives no pay for sitting on the council.

Amina's mother died when she was a girl. Her father is still alive and close to 100. Amina is of Somali and Maasai descent. Her husband grows tomatoes, onions, beans and maize to support their family. They have 3 children; 2 girls and 1 boy. The largest town in the area, Naroosura, now has electricity. The area has many AIDS orphans abd poverty is endemic due to the the dry and drought-prone climate of the area.

Agnes Nkoitoi
Educate Children
Melelo, Kenya

Qualifications and Experience:

Agnes 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. She is married with 5 boys.

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)."