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Causes: Adoption, AIDS, Children & Youth, Foster Care, Health
Mission: Assisting abandoned infants and
Programs: Orphan care: amani childrens foundation (acf) provided primary funding for 4 new life trust baby centers in nairobi, nakuru, nyeri, and kisumu, kenya serving 170 children in residential care. Each home has an active kenyan social work program so that 100 of the children were legally adopted into loving homes this year. Acf also provided primary funding for 18 abandon children with special needs such as cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, and microcephaly in amani cottage in kisumu. Afc provided leadership training and support to the staff of new life homes trust.
international service trips: we educate american students, families, church groups and individuals about the crisis of orphaned children in africa through volunteer service and leadership trips to kenya.
education and awareness: in the us, we educate individuals and groups through volunteer-led programs of the african art, education, story-telling, and music. Amani volunteers hosted over 4,000 individuals at events in cities across the us using resources made by kenyan artisans and knowlege and expereinced gained from amani trips.