This is CDFI's 2022 year end campaign! We need your help to provide safety and security for the most vulnerable of the children we support in Kenya. Make a year end donation today!

Your donation today will go toward school fees for approximately 120 children with disabilities in Kenya who are not yet sponsored. 2022 has been a difficult year financial for all nonprofits, and CDFI is also facing a budget shortfall, which impacts sending these children to school.

It is so important that each child we serve has the opportunity to receive an appropriate education. 

Our team works hard to assess each child individually and enroll them in schools (many times these are boarding schools several hours from their homes) that are designed to address their specific needs. For example, many of our children attend deaf or blind schools, schools for children with cerebral palsy, schools for children with autism, etc.

Helping to provide an education for an individual child is extremely important for that child’s family as well. Many of these children are being cared for by a single mother or very often a grandmother. Caregivers cannot work and earn income if they must care for their disabled child during the day. Too often this has resulted in children being locked in a room in the home while the mother goes out to try to earn a living.

We need your help so this does not happen. Many of the parents in our program have received microloans from CDFI, which have enabled them to start small businesses. They cannot, however, work these businesses if their child is not in school.

We need to raise approximately $25,000 in order to pay school fees and associated costs to send ALL the eligible children in our Kenya program to school. Can you help us by making a year end donation today for this purpose? When you donate to send a child with special needs to school, you are also:

• Freeing the child’s caregiver to work and earn income for their family

• Ensuring that the child will have access to healthy food at school (many families cannot provide this right now due to famine in East Africa)

• Allowing a child with special needs the opportunity to reach their full potential

May you have a joyous Christmas season with those you love and hold dear. Always,

Bob Klima, CDFI President