Begun in 1994, this Partnership is dedicated to improving the lives of people in East Africa by:

• Providing Clean Water
• Providing Care and Education for Orphaned, Destitute and Vulnerable Children
  
• Providing Accessible, Affordable, Quality Healthcare
  Improving Agriculture, Sustenance, and Nutrition; and
• Providing any other service that may improve the physical, social and spiritual well-being of the people in East Africa

Clean Water

Impure water causes 1.8 million deaths every year due to disease—95% of those deaths are children under the age of 5.  The Partnership has focused on providing clean drinking water. 

We have built seven wells ourselves and had 20 more built at our facilities by outside groups.  In addition to preventing disease and allowing easier access to water, the facilities can charge a slight fee for water to fund orphanages and schools and allow farmers to irrigate their crops for year-round production.

Orphanages

The Partnership has founded or supported four different orphanages throughout Kenya: The Limuru Home for Girls, Narok Home for Boys, Nyeri Home for Boys and Girls, and the Nyeri Home for Disabled Children.  These orphanages reach the neediest children of all tribes and regions  and are also supported by the local government.   We are currently supporting more than 300 children, with plans to increase that number by another 85 children by the end of 2009. 

Sponsorships

Many orphans do not need to be taken into an orphanage, but their extended families may not have enough money to support them.  The Partnership has founded a Sponsorship program to keep them within their homes and with their loved ones  Each child is matched with a sponsor, who provides 20$ a month are able to either support a child in the orphanage or allow their   extended families to feed and cloth them.  100% of this money goes straight to the child.  The Women’s Guild monitors these funds and delivers the food and clothing directly to the child each month., checking on their health and progress.

Health Care Facilities

The state of health care in Kenya is deplorable.  When a sick person enters a clinic they have between a 10 and 15% chance of being correctly diagnosed.  Usually there is no lab equipment for testing.  The populace  is afflicted with diseases like malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, brucellosis, and HIV.  Additionally, many people in rural areas do not live close enough to a hospital or clinic to be treated.  The Partnership has taken on the challenge of providing accessible, affordable, quality care to the people of Kenya.  Since 2007 we have founded 10 health care clinics, and have been given facilities from the government and other organizations to form 12 more.
Training trips are taken 3-4 times per year to educate the personnel in the clinics, and more than $3,000,000 of medical equipment has been donated and shipped to Kenya.  Each clinic is equipped with a laboratory, pharmacy, and record-keeping.  The training has paid off—our clinics have a successful diagnosis rate of 85%.  These trips also run mobile clinics, treating around 2,000 people each trip at churches, schools, or on grassy hills to help people who are still unable to access health care and spread the Gospel to remote areas.  In the healthcare field we have partnered with Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian of Newport Beach, CA, which  provides medical personnel for these trips and several hospitals within Kenya.  We also have seven other hospitals and more than 80 companies supporting our trips with donated medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and personnel. 

Scholarship Program

The Scholarship program is currently supporting around 20 well-qualified, needy students as they study in universities, nursing colleges, and secondary schools.  A full year of university only costs about $3,000; a great way for an organization to improve a young student’s life through education.

Agriculture

The East African Partnership has been granted large tracts of unused land from the Kenyan and Tanzanian governments.  We are planning to irrigate the land, use modern tractors to cultivate the farms, provide jobs for the community, and sell the produce to make East Africa agriculturally self-sufficient.  The money produced by this project will be used to expand our community programs.

Moving Forward

What allows our Partnership to move forward rapidly into so many different fields?  Every project we start must be self-sustaining within two years, allowing us to move on to other programs without worrying about a constant drain from unproductive projects.  Profits from established programs are used to fund the expansion of current projects or new initiatives.  We are supplying 10 motorcycles to help mobile health clinics, bringing new treatments for malaria and tuberculosis to Kenya, working on an immunization program with the government, and working to bring physical and spiritual healing to the people of Kenya.  Both partners contribute funds, time, and resources to every project we undertake.