Orphan Sponsorship Program (OSP)

The purpose and objective of the OSP is to provide basic physical, social and spiritual care to those children who have lost their parents. We have hundreds of children waiting for sponsorship. We encourage foster parents to fill in a sponsorship form and become part of our organization. An orphan’s life can be given new direction for as little as $25 a month. WWB considers first the orphans in greatest need, or, you can choose a child with preference of age or gender. The sponsors’ money goes towards purchasing school supplies, books, school uniforms, clothing, medicine, and housing for the child

HIV/AIDS Program

Kenya has been hit hard by the HIV epidemic with approximately 1.8 million adults and over 400,000 children infected. By 2010, it is estimated that up to 30 million children will lose one or both parents to the disease. We are committed to working with local communities to help fight the disease. We are training home-based caregivers to help community members raise awareness of HIV/AIDS issues and take steps to prevent infection. We are requesting local and international volunteers to come and work at our orphanage, villages, schools and communities

Sustainable Agriculture Program

Recognizing the long-term physical, emotional, social and economic effects of malnutrition, hunger and poverty, Watoto Wa Baraka places great emphasis on teaching older children how to grow vegetables and staple food crops. The children learn sustainable techniques to produce basic grains such as maize, beans, rice and peas, and learn how to organically produce garden vegetables and fruits. The farm animals provide malnourished orphans with protein in the form of meat, eggs and milk.

Sanitary napkins Program

The main purpose of this program is to help provide teenage girls and young women with sanitary pads. Many girls and young women share the same piece of cloth with their mother and other female members of the family or miss school for at least four days every month. You can prevent this by sending a packet of sanitary pads for one poor girl or money to buy some here. Please make a payment by clicking a donate button on this page. Remember, one dollar one girl!

Women Micro-savings program

This is unique development project that empowers women to overcome the burdens of poverty by teaching them how to form a savings co-operative. This also helps changing their traditional financial habits of spending everything they earn with much hardship leaving them with nothing for emergency. The project at WWB has had solid success mobilizing small groups of women to save for a twelve month period before investing in targeted small business ventures. Each woman is required to save $1 per week. We are looking for individual sponsors or corporate to help match the women fund.

Others

We are currently looking for funding to develop more programs that will benefit the children we serve and the community at large. They include provision of clean, safe water for drinking through drilling boreholes for poor communities, construction of schools, the establishment of sustainable income-generating projects to curb unemployment.