Friends of Ngong Road

We empower Nairobi children living in poverty to transform their lives through education and support, leading to employment.

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Volunteer Travel Grant-Katelyn

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This year the camp program included the first-ever Friends of Ngong Road Camp Volunteer Travel Grant Award Winner – Katelyn Pastick. Katelyn is a senior at the University of Minnesota, studying medicine and planning to enter medical school next fall.  She was the person selected from five applicants for the new Volunteer Travel Grant award introduced this year.
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Annual Gatherings-2014

Friends of Ngong Road held gatherings in seven locations in September and early October to learn about and celebrate another year of transforming the lives of children served by our program in Nairobi.
Featured guests from Kenya:  Naomi and Tunda 
This year two of our staff members, Naomi Kamanda (head of the Secondary Department) and Tunda Lepore (head of the Primary Department) traveled to the U.S. and visited Minneapolis/St. Paul and Walker in MN; St. Ansgar and Decorah in IA; Chicago, IL; and Milwaukee and Hayward in WI to meet friends and supporters of Friends of Ngong Road.  An eighth gathering, without our Kenya visitors, (but with a visit from Paula) will occur in Seattle, WA in November.

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The 2014 “Send a Kid to Camp” Campaign Was a Smash Success!

As you know, we ran a special “Send a Kid to Camp” fundraising campaign from May through July of this year.  Our objective was to raise $20,000 to cover the cost of the camp in 2014.  Thanks to your support our total contributions were well past that!  We are so delighted to have achieved such success in this campaign.

In August, over 350 children in Kenya experienced what they all call the best week of the year.  They will have eaten well, escaped the confines of the slums in Nairobi, and had their lives enriched with games, arts and crafts, and just plain fun. The $20,000+ we have raised covered it all! Thank you for making it possible!

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Letter From Nairobi – U.S visit

Dear Friends,

This has been a busy time here in Nairobi at Ngong Road Children’s Foundation.
Camp and especially the volunteers
The camp was once more an exciting time as usual. The volunteers from the U.S. were awesome since each of them had work to do during Camp. Margaret and Karen helped to make kites; Megan did a role model essay. Ethan taught Frisbees which is a new game for Kenya and Katelyn did a science project about volcanoes. We had two NRCF board members who were also able to attend and participate together with the children, Robert and Edna.

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Meet Tunda Lepore, Primary Department Head, NRCF

Tunda is 29 years old and from a polygamous Maasai family with three wives.  She has fourteen brothers and sisters in total. She grew up in a small village in the Maasai area called Enaibelibel in the midst of the rich, beautiful, and sometimes cruel and biased cultural practices of the Maasai community.  Being born female made her very vulnerable compared to a male child. Today she is one of the few women from the Maasai community who was never circumcised and escaped being married off at a young age.
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