Light Up Hope

It is our vision and mission to find creative solutions to offer a continuum of emotional, spiritual, physical and educational care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), youths, and their families in Kenya.  Emotional and spiritual care includes mentorship, counseling, professional guidance and life skills education.  Physical support includes but is not limited to; family unification, kin care, provision of food and adult transitional support.  Educational care includes sponsorship for primary, secondary, university and vocational education.

Our Programs: 

Light Up Hope lights a path out of poverty through education, health, mentorship and mental health interventions in underprivileged and under resourced communities in Kenya. We do this through three programs which EMPOWER, PROTECT, EDUCATE, MENTOR & HEAL:

1. High School and Primary School Sponsorship

2. WOVEN - Our Women of Vision Education iNitiative 

3. School Feeding Programs focused on those areas highly affected by the drought. 

Testimonials

"I saw firsthand how hunger can affect a child's ability to learn. Hunger makes it hard to focus, hard to retain information, hard to learn."

"If not for this program, I would be living with my mother doing manual labor
around or being a night tutor for some kids in the area (since I had good grades in
school). In the slums a lot of teens and other young adults have turned to crime as a
way of fending for themselves and their families, as many of the friends I grew up
with are now criminals whilst others have been murdered, there may be a chance
that if not for this program I would have ended like them." Ellis - Program recipient since 2012