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Changing the Lives of Children in Kenya & the US

400,000 Books

100,000+ Kids

4,500 Items

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Welcome to Faith Kenya Mission

Who Are We?

We are the Faith Kenya Mission America and Kenya Literacy Partnership Initiative in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

We provide resources and aid to struggling communities in Kenya and local communities in Massachusetts, including Billerica, Chelsea, Dorchester, and Lawrence.

Faith Kiio and her daughter, Tomi Dobbs, met with Mayor DePeña and State Rep. Estela Reyes of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to discuss the book donation effort.

Through our compassion and dedication to serving, we work to empower communities and deliver programs that provide accessible and affordable healthcare, quality education, training, and clean water. We aim to have a long-term impact on the region that promotes sustainable growth and development now and for generations to come.

Meet Our Student Initiative Leader

Community Activist Tomi Dobbs is a speaker, community activist, and founder of the One Student - One Book - One Dream movement. At 10 years old, she fulfilled her desire to become an author, wrote three books, and did a TEDx Talk. Her mission is to make sure everyone has access to books, and has sent over 400,000 books to people in Kenya and her home state, Massachusetts. A resident of Lexington, Massachusetts, Tomi loves biking at the Minute Man Bike Trail. Tomi’s TEDx Talk link is down below!

Watch Tomi Dobbs speak at TEDxYouth@ElliotStreet on her literacy initiative!

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OUR IMPACT IN USA & KENYA

In the USA

Lawrence
Billerica
Chelsea
Worcester
Dorchester

In Kenya

Kibera
Iltilal
Mtito Andei

How We Accomplish Our Mission: Literacy

Books provide a source of knowledge, spark imagination, and help to improve critical reading, writing, and speaking skills. They also improve overall intelligence and memory. We provide programs that help children and teens in Kenya and Massachusetts gain access to a wide variety of books and other reading materials so that they can learn and develop these skills and increase their knowledge of a variety of different subjects.

We help build libraries and provide books and other reading materials to centers, schools, and communities. We collect these books from our international, local, and business partners.

We Collect Books from Generous Organizations like Libraries, Bookstores & Individual Donors

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We Recruit Incredible Homeless Volunteers to Help Us Pick Up & Pack the Books

We Ship & Deliver Thousands of Books to Worthy Organizations and People

We Deliver Books, Delighting & Educating Women & Children Across Many Organizations

Our Impact in Kajiado Kenya

Our mission is fueled by the incredible support of individuals and organizations who share our passion for positive change.

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How We Accomplish Our Mission: Math Program

We have expanded into helping students with their math skills, practicing math for at least 30 minutes daily. To reach this goal, Faith Kenya Mission partners with the Art of Problem Solving, an exceptional math program based in California with reach throughout the United States.

The Art of Problem Solving donated math textbooks and online resources, including:

150 Beast Academy Online student accounts
This gives students access to their online platform with 20,000+ problems, puzzles, and activities across more than 1,000 lessons
It also includes over 1,000 instructional videos

Already, over 200 students' lives have been impacted by this new program.

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How We Accomplish Our Mission: Water

We distribute water from the borehole to the school kitchen, dormitory, storage, and the market water point. The goal is for the community to get water and buy at a reasonable rate in order to:

Sustain the project
Have more students board and reduce the morning walking trend
Plant a vegetable garden
Provide water troughs for wild animals that live alongside them

This water project is at ACK Mtito-Andei, providing water to 700 students and 4,763 people in the community.

Below, you will see how we start with an open field, we dig trenches and holes until we find water. In the end, we find clean water for the community!

The machine digs 200 meters down to find water.

Then, we start digging the trenches.

Then, pipes are added to the trenches.

The water begins to be pumped into the tanks.

The workers are actually in the holes, standing on the tanks.

The many workers who help to dig the trenches.

The tanks hold water that is supplied to markets and schools.

Gravity helps deliver the water!

To view the journey to clean water in the process, enjoy the videos below!

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Explore Our Additional Programs

Sponsor Education For Needy Children

Promoting Health Services And Awareness Related To Lifestyle Diseases

Improve Socio-Economic Conditions Of Kenyans

What’s Happening at Home in Massachusetts?

Faith Kenya Mission America was recently awarded a private grant to provide online math resources to students from low-income areas in Massachusetts.

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One of Our Many Success Stories

Education opens doors for children that enable them to achieve the goals they set. Education promotes the development of critical thinking, decision-making, and interpersonal skills that are needed to contribute to society and develop sustainable communities. We work to make sure as many children as possible receive the education they need to achieve their goals and serve their communities.

We offer formal, informal, non-formal, accelerated, and essence-based education programs. We help build schools and provide education in traditional classroom-based education provided by trained teachers. For out-of-school youths, we provide informal education through our after-school programs in communities, libraries, or at home. Our education programs are often conducted by volunteers or certified teachers.

Educating Ngilisho

Ngilisho is one of the many underprivileged children in Kenya whose hopes of getting an education have been restored through our Faith Kenya Mission America and Kenya Literacy Partnership initiative.