CELEBRATING 2025, so very much to be thankful for.
MEET THE NEW KIDS!
COME IN CLOSE and SEE how TWENTY NEW CHILDREN are welcomed and celebrated!
YOU’RE DONATIONS MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.
Stunned, we inquired more about these children and how they were missed by the Children’s Department. She shared that she was only given one option, only one kid can be on the Children’s Department list. But those aren’t our rules at Baba Nyumbani. We welcome the hungry, the lost, the abandoned, those who struggle and have no access to basic human rights: shelter, food, and water.
A plan of action has been put into place now. The guardian not only left with food for those children in their home, but with more food that would provide meals for weeks. This will give our team time to go in and assess the full circumstance and work with the guardian to bring those children to Baba Nyumbani!
We expect to welcome these children to the family in January 2026.
TWENTY NEW CHILDREN joined our Baba Nyumbani family this year. And while we LOVE celebrating these wonderful new children, it doesn’t come without heartbreak.
This year, while we welcomed the children and their guardians we were confronted with a harsh reality. One of the guardians refused to eat or leave. Instead, she sat on a chair, against a wall, looking completely destitute and resolved. When we approached her to ask what was happening, how could we help, she shared her story….
“I cannot eat your food or leave here because while you have taken one child, I have to go back to FOUR MORE children under the age of 11, that have not eaten in days. I am unable to work and cannot provide daily meals. Instead of eating my portion, could you pack it, and any other food I can take back to these children. How can I leave, when you have so much and they do not?
BABA NYUMABANI FUNDRAISER + PARTNERSHIP DAY
We had TWO days of celebration, one in each Micro-Community. It was a day filled with song, dance, fundraising and new/renewed partnership contracts. The day brought many Government Officials and media, capturing the transformational work of Baba Nyumbani. We were found across National News, everywhere, and in every journalistic platform. And we’re just beginning…
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
FIRST AND FOREMOST, while Kenyan Care Reform plans to exit all Children’s Homes Institutions by 2032, Baba Nyumbani is the organization the government seeks to lead a new path to caring for children and youth with. This means we will not be forced to shut down and will continue to be a pivotal voice in what this new era of support will look like.
Our Executive Team worked diligently and strategically with Government Partners which produced Government contracts and bursaries. Here is a list of what these new contracts bring:
REVAMP of our Sustainable Enterprises: We are on track towards our vision of sustainability of mission in Kenya. With Government support and encouragement we will be receiving 1000 laying chicken, dairy cows and will be listed as an approved supply and distribution member of Government Food Security Support.
Note: while the beginning is in Swahili, it will change to English and you’ll see our children along with our Executive Director, Nicole Scott + our Fundraising and Communications Director, Elizabeth Ngoru.
NEW solar/electric Bore Hole: One of our locations struggles with water and with this new Government support, we won’t have any water issues and will be able to extend this clean water to the surrounding community that struggles with illness due to dirty, salty water.
Youth Education Bursary: We’ve been around for awhile, which means a lot of our kids are now youth and in National High Schools that are costly but in high demand. With education bursaries from the Ministry of Youth and Education, we are able to reduce our total education costs, allowing us to redirect those funds towards the new children coming in.