Without your help, Makimei would be unable to provide a home for so many deserving children, and every penny you kindly donate goes directly to supporting our work. Choose below where you would like your donation to make a difference.
Basic Needs
We have many daily basic needs for our family of more than 100 children.
Medical and dental care are critical needs for a healthy, successful life. Many of our children have on-going medical needs due to the circumstances of their abandonment and all incoming infants need immediate medical care, for which Makimei Children’s Home must pay.
We feed more than 100 children every day – 2,100 meals a week – and donations provide vital access to much needed resources: fresh fruit and vegetables, protein, staples such as rice, and formula for infants.
Education
Ensuring our children receive a quality education is central to the Makimei mission. Thanks to your donations, each child is placed in a local private school and their education funded from kindergarten through high school. We encourage our students to pursue higher education, and currently have nine young adults attending college in Nairobi. We can only do this with your support. A donation to the education fund goes directly to the school and college fees of our children and helps purchase essential equipment such as laptops for high school and college students.
New Home
The construction of our new home is the most pressing need for Makimei today. Currently, all our children are housed in two small prefabricated buildings on the original premises, with only a rudimentary kitchen, basic bathroom facilities and little capacity for individual or group activities.
Your donations will help complete our new three storey building, which is 6x larger than our existing home. The building will provide comfortable dormitories, a fully functional kitchen, essential storage and much needed facilities such as a laundry room, library, computer room and play space. To date, we have completed the basement and ground floor, but cannot progress any further without additional funds.
Every contribution – no matter how small – will go directly toward finishing our new building and moving our children into a home that has the space and the facilities they need.
Thank you for your kind gift. It is only thanks to generous donors and sponsors like you that we are able to provide a stable, loving home for our family of children.