Our church helps to support Omwabini, a charitable organization founded to help and support orphans and widows in western Kenya, which has been devastated by disease. It was founded by Kenyans, and is directed by Kenyans, with help and financial support from friends in Europe and America.  The area in which they work has experienced a very high death rate of young adults from malaria, cholera, AIDS and other diseases.  Many of these victims are young parents and their children are left without support.

Omwabini provides support, food, clean water supplies, housing and education.  It uses the money it receives to build long-term, local solutions to the local problems. For example, money provided from Aurora and other supporters allowed them to rent farmland, buy fertilizer and seed, and operate farm implements for one year.  During that year a crop was raised sufficient to feed 500 orphan children, and to pay the rent on the land for the following year.  After three years the farm is thriving, and Omwabini is now working to buy the land.  Instead of using donated money for short-term support, projects of this kind use funds to provide the local people with the tools to support themselves and solve their own problems.  As well as the farm, our donations have helped to provide clean water supplies to over a thousand families, and build a hostel for 100 orphaned teenaged girls attending the vocational high school operated by Omwabini.   www.omwabinirescuesteps.org