Kenya Trip 2009: Part Two

Koiyaki Guiding School
GPS: 1 degree South, 24.426 and 35 degrees East 20.532

After a long and bumpy ride from Narok into the Mara, we met up with Simon and Agnes Nkoitoi and journeyed to the Koiyaki Guiding School. We spent a few days visiting with Maasai students studying to become safari guides, learning more about Maasai culture and admiring the local wildlife.


Elephants are regular visitors to the area surrounding the Koiyaki Guiding School. Contrary to popular belief, elephants are very fierce and dangerous!

Olpukoti Primary School
GPS: 0 degrees South, 54.193 and 35 degrees East, 36.756.

We traveled with Simon to his shamba (farm) in Melelo, located in the hills north of Narok. While there we visited Olpukoti, the primary school where Agnes works as a teacher.

Every year OFDC provides 40 Olpukoti students with new uniforms and underwear. Uniforms are required to attend school and, thanks to your donations, these children can continue their educations!
*Agnes is in the back row, far left.


Narok AIDS Clinic

Back in Narok, we visited a woman named Lucy, a clinical counselor working at an AIDS clinic.


Lucy kindly has assisted OFDC by teaching 4 women's training seminars. The 1,050 Maasai women who attended benefited from her knowledge and the fact that she is a woman. It is a rare opportunity for them to receive answers to important questions, as they are too afraid to ask the men.


Enkusero Primary School
GPS: 0 degrees South, 30.344 and 35 degrees East, 47.350



Enkusero Primary School is a small school in the rural rolling hills of the Interior. The community is very poor and the school has many needs.

This latrine was funded by YOUR donations! Clean latrines are necessary to keep girls, especially, in school. They no longer have to fear the boys peeking at them!


Ololongoi Primary School





Olepolos Primary School



A well is currently being built for this school with materials purchased by OFDC. The parents donate their labor and 20% of the total cost, giving the community ownership of the project.We would like to thank Sarah Beth Coyote Foundation for donating the funds to make this possible!


Olemeisi Primary School

Like many of the schools in the area, the buildings are less than desirable and there is a chronic lack of water. The school has a need for new latrines so that the girls can have some much-required privacy.
Water is currently being drawn from this very dangerous unfinished well. The head teacher is requesting a new well to save the children from having to make the long trek to water from a safer place. A new well would provide clean water for up to 600 people!


Safe House

Before our return to the United States we were sure to visit with the girls living in the safe house. The teen girls are lucky to have a place to stay that protects them from having to be circumcised and becoming young brides. These girls see school as their only hope and the only possible way out of traditional child marriages. YOUR donations keep these girls and others in school and enable them to have a future.

Leah, Alicent, Masi and Florence smile as they walk to school. They are grateful to you, their sponsors for helping them pursue their dreams of becoming educated, liberated women.

Thank you for your support!

Remember, even as little as a dollar makes a difference.

Kenya Trip 2009: Part One

Oimerru Primary School

In a rural community outside Narok, Kenya is the Oimerru primary school. Because of severe drought many famlies’ crops have failed this year. As a result, the children have very little to no food at home. Luckily they can come to school and eat meals provided by the World Food Program.



OFDC funded the purchasing of new desks for Form 8. Children can look forward to having their own space at school and a place to keep their school supplies and milk!




Ole Rai

Far from the city and even the rural farming life is the little village community of Ole Rai. The Maasai families live in manyattas (mud and cow-dung huts) and sell charcoal in town. These mamas were very happy to receive mosquito nets to protect their children from malaria!




Pulung’a Primary School
GPS: South 1 deg. 6.203 ft., East 35 deg. 50.751 ft.

Pulung’a is a rural community just outside Narok. They too have been struggling because of the drought. Maasai men and families lead their cattle and coats to the nearby river. The teachers are so proud of their school and the students!


The mamas want nothing more than to enable their children to receive an education.


Students were excited to receive their new school uniforms!


Olokirikirai Primary School
GPS: South 0 deg. 44.693 ft., East 35 deg. 53.153 ft.


In the farming town of Olekirikirai is a school that has benefited from OFDC in a variety of ways. This year the neediest children received new uniforms. They were so excited to have new clothes that they sang songs and danced.


Ololoiboti Primary School
GPS: South 0 deg. 45.754 ft., East 35 deg. 54.451 ft.

After walking an hour from Olekirikirai we reached the distant Ololoiboti Primary School. The community is very small and consists of mostly farmers. Because the school is situated on the top of a hill, it is very difficult to reach. The only way to the school is by foot or by tractor.



The teachers and parents struggle to make ends meet, but do everything in their power to put their children through school. Because it is expensive to have stone and sand delivered from so far away, the parents chose to haul the stones up the hills themselves in order to build this new building.

Updates on some sponsored children:

Frederick is an OFDC-sponsored student attending St. Anthony’s Secondary School. He was very pleased to visit with us and thank you, his sponsors, for enabling him to get an education.

Elizabeth, Emily, Joyce and Demaris attend Ole Tipis Secondary School for Girls. Because of donations to OFDC these girls were saved from FGM and being married off. Emily and Elizabeth enjoy playing football (soccer) and Joyce plays drums in the school band. Demaris studies hard and was busy taking an exam at the time of our visit.

Even a donation as small as a dollar can make a difference! Your support for OFDC changes the lives of many. You, our friends and sponsors, are giving these children a future!