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Schools for Hope

Schools for hope aims to step into the lives of children like Simon and Mary by providing a high school education that meets them where they are...in the heart of Kibera the 2nd largest slum in the world. [read more]

Breaking the cycle

In Kenya, without a high school education there are few job opportunities outside of construction and child prostitution. Providing a Christian education from pre-school through high school will give children like Simeon both hope and a way to break the depravity cycle. [read more]

Kids long for education

Grace is one of the many children in need of education in Kenya. [read more]

Hope for Children

Schools for Hope aims to bring positive change in Kibera by providing an affordable Christian education.

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Heading to Kibera

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It was the machete knives and blood covered Kenyans that signaled we were not where we wanted to be. As we bumped down the pothole covered dirt road toward the slum we hoped to build a Christian high school in, we soon found our tattered SUV following a train of cars forced to detour into a small village. What caught our attention first was not that our Honda was winding further and further from any familiar roads, but rather that the hundreds of people that stood on both sides of the vehicle were wearing white coats covered in blood. Before long we learned that instead of this bloody village being a tremendous threat to our lives, it was actually the heart of Kenya’s animal butchery market. By dinner we found ourselves gratefully thanking those bloody butchers for the meat that we were about to sink our teeth into, and even more gratefully thanking God that we did not get a flat tire in the village.

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Some of Our Favorite Links

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Global Connections - our partners on the ground in Kenya
Photo Essay on Kibera, from The Paris Review
Kibera Info 
Kibera at Wikipedia  
Slum Survivors - Documentary on Kibera (trailer) 
Slum Survivors - Documentary on Kibera (film)  
Flying Toilets - Funny + gross; made by a Global Connections intern

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