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​HOMEBASED PROGRAM

Where a caring, loving, and supportive home exists for them, children are sponsored through the Home-based family care program.  Mothers, grandmothers, and other guardians provide care with the help of cash and in-kind support they receive through sponsorships.
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The Problem
Children cannot learn and develop properly when they are normalized to the anxiety of hunger. They cannot attend “free” public primary schools unless the family pays for a uniform and miscellaneous fees.  Once in school, they will not learn as much without the books, stationery, and other school supplies families are responsible for buying.  And at home, they will not able to play and study as they should if guardians are unable to provide essentials like clothing, light, and blankets.

What we’re doing  about it
Our Home-based Program provides cash and in-kind support to families so that the guardians - who are themselves often handicapped, elderly, or otherwise unable to work - have the basics they need to ensure children are receiving good care. By helping families provide a better diet, necessary school supplies, and a sense of greater stability, we help the children in our Home-based Program grow up healthy and receive a meaningful education.
Over the last ten years, our Home-based sponsorships have helped  an additional 
150 children complete elementary school
Our Home-based program
directly supports

128 children,  and
indirectly helps more than
450 additional children 
in sponsored households
​In the face of tremendous challenges,  58%  of our
elementary school students score
in the
top half of national 8th grade exam results
Click to Sponsor a Home-based Student
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What does a sponsorship provide?

Your $415 annual sponsorship provides:
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  • A cash stipend every few months, totaling more about $360 each year and used by guardians to pay for school uniforms, fees, and supplies, as well as food and other basic household needs   
  • Agricultural inputs so the family can farm their land and children have better nutrition ​
  • In-kind gifts of foam mattress & blanket each year, so the sponsored child and his or her siblings can sleep well at night
        
How are sponsorships used?
Click on the pie chart to expand it and see the breakdown of how your sponsorship is used
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
Sponsor a Homebased Student
Contribute to the homebased farming Fund
Contribute to the healthy homes fund


Meet a home-based program alumni

Beryl Busolo

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Beryl pictured in 2006, shortly after she joined the KOCC Home-based family care program
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In late 2016, Beryl graduated from Kenyatta University in Nairobi with a degree in Public Health & Sanitation


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Friends of Kakamega is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 56-2375938), and your contributions are fully tax-deductible. No goods or services are provided in exchange for charitable sponsorships and donations.  
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