By Katie Ouma Our Preschool at the Hope Center is Growing! The reason we started a preschool was to fill a gap in the community. Most parents don’t send their children to school until the age of 7 or older. Parents in Kibagare haven’t been taught the importance of early childhood education. So we […]
by Katie Ouma Beyond blessed! That is what my answer is if you were to ask, “How do you feel after two weeks of VBS?” Every day for two weeks in April, 2023, we served anywhere from 250-300 children. It was exciting, chaos, fun, overwhelming, and the
By Katie Harvey, Child Sponsorship Director At our resource center we want to encourage a reading environment, so we started a reading challenge! Every student reads as many books as they can, and at midterms and the end of the term we reward three who read the most books with a fun activity. These three
For several years, GBHT Founder and Director Sonny Ouma had a vision of a neighborhood building that could serve as a safe space for children. Ministering to children living on the streets convinced Sonny that prevention is the key to solving the crisis of child homelessness in Nairobi. In 2021, GBHT secured a land donation
by Katie Harvey, GBHT Child Sponsorship Director Did you go to sleep hungry last night? My guess is that the majority of my readers would answer this with a “no”. Unfortunately, that’s not the case with the majority of the children we serve at the Hope Center. On most Saturday mornings, I meet with
A child sponsorship profile from our staff in Kenya: Meet Belinda! Belinda and her father recently escaped violence and unrest in their rural Kenya home and came to Nairobi. They left behind her mother and other siblings. Upon arriving, they settled in the community where GBHT is working. Belinda’s father has been unable to