NEW HOPE KIBERA BEGINNINGS...
New Hope Academy in Kibera educates roughly 300 students every year.
The great working of God’s providence often turns on the most inconsequential moments of daily events. Over a decade ago Sandy and Karen Baird were on their way to Uganda to offer advice on a new orphanage project. A layover in Nairobi, Kenya, and a visit with a local missionary resulted in a short unexpected trip to the Nairobi community of Kibera, one of the largest slums in the world. This short visit became a monumental event in the life of Sandy and Karen.
Although the Baird’s had been involved in poverty alleviation work around the world. the scope, immensity, and striking need in the Kibera community immediately and powerfully impacted their lives. The faces of the children, in a small church-run school, that Sandy and Karen visited were an image that they could not push from their minds. This short unplanned visit created a God-sized vision in the Bairds’ hearts and led to the building of the Kibera Academy and the Penda Project scholarship program that is the cornerstone of NHI’s work. Not soon after they founded New Hope Initiative and began partnering with projects all around the world.
PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER SUPPORTING NEW HOPE ACADEMY STUDENTS AND FAMILIES IN 2 SPECIFIC WAYS:
1. $40 will provide one student meals and a school uniform for an entire school year
2. $100 will provide as above and annual basic medical needs