I have been involved with Partners for Care for over 12 years, traveled to Kenya three times, and can tell you they define EXCELLENCE in missions beyond any ministry I know. PFC brings HEALTH and HOPE to the poor through SUSTAINABLE solutions that address root causes of poverty, illiteracy, and disease - and do no harm. Their Kenyan leaders provide acts of mercy, run life-changing programs, care for orphans and the vulnerable, and share the Gospel. They have reached over a million people with the message of HIV/Aids prevention, changed over 283,000 lives in LASTING ways, and brought over 25,000 people to Christ. PFC is changing lives not only for a day - but for a lifetime - transforming families, communities, and whole generations for the better!
In my opinion, the Founder Connie Cheren makes all the difference in the world. I have followed Partners for Care since it's birth. I have seen it grow substantially. Connie Cheren's heart and soul are into service and she attracts like minded people to believe and support her vision. I know any donation made to this nonprofit changing lives for the better every day!
I have been an avid supporter of PFC, a Christian based not-for-profit, for the past 2 years. It was a privilege to visit their Nairobi guest house and staff last November, and I’ll be returning again this Fall. This organization was started single-handed by a woman who visited Kenya 20 years ago and witnessed children who were ill ( or dying) from conditions that were imminently treatable with the proper medical treatments, clean water and adequate nutrition. These conditions are all the more critical in the rural areas of the country. Since that time, the staff of 30 Kenyans on the ground distribute Clean Water packs and sleeping nets to churches and schools, have established and maintain sewing and literacy schools, coordinate distribution of Mobility Carts, and provide free medical care to children and adults in need. The founder, Connie Cheren, continues to oversee the work she began, manages fund raising to support these services, and without salary for herself.
I have been supporting PFC for several years. It is an organization that truly helps to transform lives of the people of Kenya especially those in the slum areas. Staff members from the U.S.A. do not get paid. Their time and effort are all voluntary.
I’ve seen this non profit’s programs on the ground with my own eyes. The difference they make in so many peoples lives is incredible. It really is inspiring and motivating.
My husband and I have been supporters of Partners for Care for many years. We decided to support this impactful organization because of the phenomenal work it does by partnering with citizens in east Africa to provide support in a sustainable manner. In other words, PFC does not provide "hand-outs" like many organizations, which in the long-term can actually negatively impact the economic stability of a region. It instead hires local citizens to run the organization that includes setting up sewing and computer schools to provide jobs, providing mobility carts to enable physically-challenged individuals to become gainfully employed, implementing safe water solutions to prevent waterborne illnesses and so much more! After I retired, I was invited to become a member of the Advisory Board and I emphatically said "Yes"!! Now that I have an even closer view of the life-changing work being done by this great organization, I am even more impressed!
When I consider Partners for Care, I marvel at the high level of achievement this organization demonstrates. Connie Cheren is an inspirational leader. She imparts this inspiration to her Kenyan staff members. In 15 years, PFC has added numerous program areas which are a direct outgrown of the organization's original vision of saving the lives of children who are dying from preventable diseases. As opportunities have arisen, PFC has acted to change even more lives. I've been to Kenya and witnessed the work of PFC. In my view, it is an amazing organization.
I’ve been involved with this non-profit for 12 years and its impact has grow beyond belief! It’s foundation that Americans should ‘do no harm’ to the country they’re working in and to train up locals to serve their country has been steadfast.
PFC is a 10 star Not for Profit in my opinion. In 2018, I went on my first trip to Kenya as a ministry volunteer. I learned about PFC and their goals for improving the lives of Kenya’s most vulnerable and often forgotten children and adults. I visited the Kibera, the Githogoro, and the Marurui slums in Nairobi. I visited Kilifi and Marsabit. I visited the Manyattas and the church in the desert “ends of the earth” area of Kenya. PFC staff extend hope and love in all these areas through their various programs. They offer a hand up instead of a hand out aimed at providing independence and dignity. In 2022, after the threat of COVID, I returned and saw firsthand what God, PFC, and the donations are doing in Kenya. It was amazing!
PFC staff work tirelessly to help the most vulnerable while trying to become sustainable themselves. Whether it is with their WaterSafe backpacks, bed net distributions, the assembling and distribution of mobility carts, PFC’s Circle of Health Program, sewing schools, literacy and computer schools, Kathi’s House, and The Center of Hope, they have served thousands and lives are changing both physically, mentally, and spiritually.
In Kenya I found:
· Fifty cents will provide a family access to a clinician and medication with PFC’s Circle of Health Program
· Ten dollars saves a life. It is the cost of a water backpack which holds clean water and keeps a child from getting waterborne diseases. It can supply a hand washing station in schools or public areas to encourage frequent hand washing to help prevent the spread of Covid and other viruses. I have seen the need for both.
· Or a ten-dollar donation supplies the cost of a bed net to a family to protect their children from mosquitos carrying malaria. I have been in their home in the slum and have seen their gratitude to the PFC staff.
· A fifty-dollar donation supplies mobility, independence and hope to a disabled child or adult. I spoke with a mother with disabilities, whose child had to watch her sit and beg on the streets for money or for someone to carry her from place to place. She said most called her vulgar names and passed her by. Now with mobility she has dignity. Her child sees her as a strong businesswoman who runs her own business and supports their needs. She is thankful to God and PFC. She has hope and she no longer depends on charity.
I bought candy from a man with disabilities who is seen as a businessman in his community instead of being pitied and scorned while begging from the dirt on the side of a road. He is independent, transports himself with a mobility cart and supports his needs by selling candy. He has joy in his life because of the gift of mobility.
· A one-hundred-dollar donation supplies a sewing machine for the sewing school. I visited a sewing school where adults were learning to sew so they can support themselves and provide for their families. They were grateful to have an opportunity to learn a profitable skill from their teacher. The schools are now sewing bed nets for the PFC Bed Net Program to offset the cost of buying them from others. Additionally, students can earn money toward the cost of their tuition through the number of nets they sew.
Additionally, Kathi’s House supplies a loving family-like setting, with care and respite for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, and The Center of Hope, a women and children’s rescue center in Marsabit, supplies care for women and children who need medical attention and temporarily need housing and food.
PFC's sustainability programs include Mary's Market at Kathi's House, an AirBnB in Nairobi, and a musical equipment rental program, and an affordable branding service. All money raised in the U.S. goes to Kenya. They are very frugal, wanting to serve as many people as possible.
Partners for Care and the dedicated staff on the ground in Kenya who do the work are living their mission and values every day to make it possible for every child in Kenya to have the opportunity to live…..to have safe water, enough food to eat, attend school, and grow up healthy. They have WaterSafe devices that allow schools and unreached people to have access to safe water. They have mobility carts that give the gift of mobility to those on the ground in need. They have developed computer and sewing schools to enrich the lives of the Kenyans. And they do all of this with an amazing attitude and heart for helping their people.
Avoid, avoid, avoid. Even though I said I wanted to stop donating, they kept mailing me donation information with the wrong name, which I asked them to fix multiple times. The person in charge of this organization is rude and callous, she doesn't seem to care about women in trouble at all, as I had personally reached out for support. I could say more about her inappropriate behavior, which included screaming at me when I said I wanted to cancel my donation, but leave it to say that your money would be a lot more deserving elsewhere.
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I joined partners for care in 2010 as a computer tutor and for the 4 years i have witnessed God work in PFC .Its amazing how God work through people in PFC everyone is servants we all serve knowing that it's not about ourselves but what God want us to do.Truly PFC is one kind of an organization that you would love to be associated with by all means.God bless Partners For Care.
I doubt there are many non-profits that can match the ministry return that Partners for Care delivers. Through a mostly volunteer base in the US, over 30 full and part time Kenyan workers are making a very real difference in the lives of thousands of fellow Kenyans. And all of this is done on an annual budget that is less than many Executive Directors make working for other non-profits. The model is not to equip and train foreigners to go to another culture and try to make a difference. Instead, it is to partner with people of the same culture who are already making a difference.
I interned for PFC last fall and I remember my first day meeting the US team was such a delightful surprise. The passion they all have for helping sufficiently change the lives of others through sustainability was incredible! They are so different from other non-profits in the US, because they genuinely care about changing peoples lives forever, not just for a short period of time. They are intentional about making sure the Kenyans learn how to manage and educate their people about care and prevention off different illnesses that are causing great fatalities. Partners for Care is a one of a kind organization, they have a big heart that is solely dedicated to helping others help others!
Currently, I intern for PFC and absolutely love it. My mother is originally from Kenya and given the opportunity to help Kenyans because we can is an honor. Working for an organizations that actually cares about the impact and wants to help secure more long term solution is amazing. People do not understand that people in this countries are capable of doing anything with the love and support. Partner for Care give the love and support back to Kenya and helps them achieve amazing things. It's an honor to work for a amazing organization.
Partners for Care is an amazing organization lead by dedicated leaders who believe that their initiatives be Kenyan-led and designed to serve the people of East Africa in sustainable ways. PFC works to develop and enable local leaders on the ground therefore bringing hope and healing to their nation. They have made so many incredible contributions to the people of Kenya and have empowered them with so many wonderful gifts including life changing water packs, the message of HIV prevention and the Gospel, hospital transformation, computer training, discipline through sports, mobile health services, education, and so much more. PFC is truly changing lives in sustainable ways!
I joined the Partners for Care team as an intern in 2013 and was so encouraged by their dedication to those in Kenya. They truly care about meeting needs with their efforts while making sure the Kenyan environment and economy is growing. I am so inspired by the entire Partners for Care team - their selflessness and the way they sacrifice various aspects of their personal lives for the betterment of those they minister to. This is such a wonderful organization and their hearts are definitely in the right place. The Lord is their top priority and I pray he continues to bless their efforts!
I joined Partners for Care in the year 2010. I saw the opportunity that i had been previously missing to serve my Kenyan people in slums and unreached areas. I would do whatever i could and i showed up every morning to serve however i could in the Marurui Life Changing Centre because the great work they were doing was motivation enough to keep coming back. Partners for Care has discovered a model that every NGO should emulate whereby they empower the people on the ground to serve their own people rather than have foreigners do the work. It has been an amazing four year journey and i have lost count of the lives i have seen positively transformed across all age groups and different cultures. Thank you Partners for Care for reaching the unreached and transforming lives.
- I first met Connie Cheren at a church service in Nairobi, Kenya in 2008. She had come from a remote village with a 21 year old Turkana man who had always dreamed of an education. Working with a local church, she found him a good home & school. Two days later I met them again, as the school he would be attending was at the very home where I was volunteering. It was providential! I have a photo of Isaac on that day . . . the happiest new student I have ever seen.
- I was moved by this story, and the lengths Connie would go to give even one young man a "hope and a future." This was the beginning of an amazing new life for Isaac, and a work Connie would partner with God to pioneer. Since that time, MANY "Isaac's" have had their lives impacted in positive and lasting ways because of this ministry.
- Partners for Care seeks to do good, and no harm. To give hand-ups, not hand-outs, which often create or enable dependancy or poverty mindsets. PFC believes in the value and dignity of each person. Assessing their assets and needs, we work WITH them to help THEM find positive, sustainable solutions to their problems. One life at a time, people are being transformed.
- Our Kenyan staff are passionate, gifted leaders. Serving daily, they reach their nation to bring hope and lasting change to poverty, disease and despair. Their feet are on the ground every day, serving their brothers and sisters big and small. Each one is a treasure.
- Partners for Care gives loving, compassionate 'crisis' care when needed - because starving children need food not a lesson, and those suffering and dying need love, comfort and hope - not a plan. But it doesn't stop there. The goal is to leave every situation better than we found it.
- When I think of Partners for Care, I think of a growing ministry that Partners first and foremost with God and His wonderful plans for His people in this world. Each is born with a destiny and God's desire for every man, woman and child, is truly good. It is an honor to Parnter with such a Father and such a ministry.
- Because of PFC, countless people DO have a hope and a future. We could state pages of statistics and numbers to prove that to you - but perhaps the real fruit is in the story of each person who even at this very moment could stand before you and say, "Because of them, my life has changed."
- There are children running, playing and laughing who would not be alive. Their are "double orphans" who now have a name and belong in a family. There are young girls in loving homes and school, not selling themselves on the street to survive. There are marriages that have been restored. There are whole villages that have been transformed by access to health care, safe water, and learning trades. There are new pastors being discipled to reach their people. There are widows sitting together in support groups, finding hope. There are people who have access to health care in regions that have been 'unreachable' until now. There are street kids going to bed tonight in a warm bed, in a safe home. There are widows humming to the sound of their sewing machines as they make beautiful items to sell and provide for their own children . . . their future. There are people once hungry, harvesting gardens to feed their families, neighbors and villages. There are people being held in loving arms, being filled with hope and the truth of a God who loves them and will never let them go . . . THIS, is Partners for Care.
"And with His blood He purchased men for God from every nation, language, tribe and tongue." Revelation.
Partners for care is a great institution that dedicate their time and energy in doing vital humanitarian work that government tend to ignore. PFC have clarity of vision that help them to know exactly what they want to a chive. Involvement of the community into solving the problem they are facing help PFC to enjoy a high degree of public trust in any community they step in. PFC are sensitive to local culture and costume which make them the best to work in Kenya where they are several community with different norms and values which should be respect since they act as a gate to the community. PFC is NOT political driven which make difference on its role in the country like Kenya. PCT are flexible in adapting to local situation and responding to local needs and therefore able to develop integrated project as well as sectoral project.
I have known the founder of Partners for Care for over 20 years. When Connie Cheren founded Partners for Care with David Gruber I knew it would be successful. Her life story is all about helping others achieve excellence. I love her approach of encouraging and empowering the people of Kenya to change Kenya. It is not about us Americans going over and doing what they can do. It is about listening to the passionate Kenyan leaders and helping them with the tools they need so they can help their own country. As the name indicates, PFC also partners with other companies and organizations and links the people and their resources to those Kenyan nationals on the ground who can go the last mile. As all operating expenses on the US side are paid by a private group of donors, all other monies donated to PFC go to support the work on the ground. Lastly, I respect that this is a faith based organization and is guided by biblical principles. It is a comfort to me to know that PFC will be a good steward of all funds and resources it is trusted with. Your donations, support and prayers will be appreciated and will make a difference.
Partners for Care embodies fiscal accountability by putting the majority of funds towards helping the Kenyan people. The charity focuses on finding sustainable solutions that empower the Kenyans it serves to be part of the solution to their poverty. Partners for Care also aligns itself with other organizations who have innovative solutions to poverty and hunger.
I have been involved with Partners for Care from the beginning. Once Connie Cheren began sharing her vision, I was in! What I love most about PFC is the commitment to encouraging the Kenyans to grow in their leadership of this organization. This is not about outsiders doing what they feel is best for Kenya; rather, it's Kenyans knowing what's best & outsiders partnering to make their dreams a reality. It's truly a beautiful partnership. As the outsiders encourage & support the local staff, they are emboldened in their desire and ability to help their communities. Their dreams become bigger & their efforts become stronger. It has been such a joy to see the lives changed as a result of these men and women serving their communities.
partners for Care is one of the institution I came across reaching out to the very disadvantaged communities in Kenya. I was drawn to volunteer my services and technical by the way I found the dedication,and commitment of the staff to the great cause of reducing the child mortality by various activities of providing eduction and sustainability ideas offered to the remotest part of the country
Partners for Care is an amazing institution doing great work to uplift the people of Kenya from a life of poverty, disease and despair. I was drawn to volunteering as a member of the PFC board because I feel utterly convinced that PFC is committed to doing exactly what they state. Many non profits generate lofty ideals but end up doing more harm than good. PFC in my view is deeply committed to the people of Kenya and in our own way we are making a great difference in the lives of women, men and children in Kenya. I am deeply honoured to serve as a board member at PFC and look forward to being of further service to the institution.
All I can say about this charity, led by Connie Cheron, is excellent!! Partners for Care offers the people of Kenya a 'hand up, not a hand out', recognizing the importance of training indigenous leaders to serve in their own communities. It's a delight to be a part of this ministry!
Partners for Care in Kenya is a great example of what an NGO should be. Focussed, passionate and caring, PFC embodies the qualities that defines leadership
Most of their work is done in Kenya but they have reach into other parts of East Africa.
They have a 25+ person team based out of Nairobi and focus on issues tied to public health. Working in some of the harshest conditions (Nairobi slums) or rural communities in Northern Kenya, they are tireless in their commitment to improving the lives of others
Above all else, Partners for Care does not simply talk about taking action. They do it.
If anyone is looking for guidance and counsel on working in the humanitarian and public health space in East Africa, they should talk to the Team at Partners for Care.
Partners for Care is a small organization based in Atlanta doing big things in East Africa. Witnessing first hand their work in Kenya and beyond, it is evident that PFC is committed to make lasting change to a land in desperate need.
My top three reasons for believing in their work:
1) It's a mission focused on people, not politics. How many organizations know a slum as family? Partners for Care uses on-the-ground leaders for all of its services. Why have an American fly across the world for a week, when willing leaders want to serve their own people? Partners for Care empowers these leaders. The result? Lasting change.
2) It's a mission focused on stewardship, not sales. How can we serve the Kenyan people more effectively? That's an ever-present question in the minds of those at PFC. From revolutionizing clean water transportation to technology-driven medical care to the simple washing of worn out feet, Partners for Care is always seeking the best way to "give success" -- a hand-up for communities, families, and individuals.
3) It's a mission focused on partnership, not PR. Servant leadership doesn't require receiving credit, but it does seek others who have a passion for serving the people of East Africa. Leave the credit, take teamwork: Change lives.
Throughout my experience in Africa, and Atlanta, these three keys have always persuaded me to believe in the work of Partners for Care.
Donations to Partners for Care (PFC) enable Kenyans to support their neighbors through established, life changing programs. As a monthly donor to PFC, I know that 100% of my donated funds go to Kenya, for health screening programs, for a dynamic water back pack program and for loads of community activity/engagement programs across Kenya. International supporters provide resources, funds and technical support and then we get out of the way - the results are AMAZING!!
Elaine C. Ashby
Donor since 2009