KARIBU!!
("Welcome" in Swahili)
We are so glad you came to learn more about who we are.
Friends of Dago is the name of our nonprofit organization, based in Newburgh, Indiana. Friends of Dago focuses on Early Childhood Development (ECD) and we partner with a village in Dago, Kenya (Africa) where we serve children in the small village. Our goal is to have them ready for primary school and increase their chances of staying in school and giving them a hope of a brighter future.
The sponsorship program began in 2016, in honor and memory of Nancy Woodruff, a lady who loved Dago and the children of Dago. Her heart was for the children and their future, and her legacy still lives on. Our sponsorship program is building momentum and we have over half the students in the program being cared for with an active sponsor. The ECD Program serves pre-school aged children, ages 3-6.
Sponsorship provides a child a school uniform (including shoes, socks and sweater) along with a backpack, covers school supplies and teachers' salaries, and most importantly provides the child with two warm meals each school day. What is even more special is with this program no child is left out of the feeding program. With your sponsorship, you provide two warm meals a day, not only for your sponsor child, but ALL the children in the program. Click on Child Sponsorship Program tab above to learn more about the program and see children who still need a sponsor.
Through our nonprofit, we recently (Spring 2022) initiated an exciting Clean Water Filtration project in Dago.
Click on Clean Water Filtration Project tab above to learn more and how you may become a partner in its success and future growth.
Along with our 10 years of diligently working and partnering to make an impact in Dago, we also, for the past 17 years have been actively working 1 1/2 hours away on a hillside near Ekerenyo - building a library, hospital and now renovating a school.
For more information about our sister nonprofit organization, Amani Partners Kenya, please follow this link: www.amanipartnerskenya.org
YOU CAN BE A PART OF MAKING AN IMPACT!!
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