Kenya is a country impacted by climate change and wracked by political unrest and tribal conflicts. The challenges could seem overwhelming, but for some visionaries in Texas and in Kenya, it’s a matter of one child, one cup of coffee, at a time. After Mwai Kibaki was sworn in as Kenya’s president in the evening …
In 2018, Our Lady of Grace School Foundation Limited was established to provide a stable financial foundation for Our Lady of Grace School in Kanyakwar, Kenya. Its board, made up of Catholics in Kenya and abroad, is mandated with securing funding for the school. Some of those “Catholics abroad” are the volunteers who run Saint …
Have you ever given thought to how your clothes are made? Or to the people who spend their days making them? Our Partner Mission in Medellín, Colombia, offers a training program for the community to teach skills in industrial sewing. At the completion of the program, trainees are almost always assured of a work position …
Industrial sewing workshop empowers local community Read More »
The Workshop in the San Basilio parish in Medellin, Colombia – one of our partner missions – provides the youth in the community a chance at life. Teaching valuable and employable skills, this workshop provides an opportunity to its students that takes them off the streets, away from a life of crime, and enables them …
San Basilio’s skills workshop gives youth a new outlook on life Read More »
The stories you are about to read were collected from our partner mission Our Lady of Grace School in Kisumu, Kenya. These are the authentic thoughts and feelings of the students positively impacted by your support. Thank you! I’m Belinda, I’m 14 years old and in grade 8. I live with my maternal grandmother because …
STORIES FROM THE CHILDREN OF OLG VOL. 3: Belinda, Lordfick and Griffin Read More »