Our Introduction

Missions of Hope International ~ Transforming the valley of darkness into the mountain of God

First stop - Pangani Center - the main office and community center for Missions of Hope International (MOHI). (http://cmfi.org/hopepartnership)

It is as though we are in a foreign land. Which of course we are, yet still its hard to describe the disparity between the land that we have just arrived from and the post war zone like conditions we are now encountering.

Our day is filled with meeting the MOHI team, learning about their work, celebrating some of their major successes and touring the remarkable facility.

MOHI began in 2000 serving 50 kids from the Mathare Valley. In 2012 they are serving  7,400 students!

Really remarkable growth with plans to have 125,000 students enrolled by 2017!

Essentially, MOHI recruits students out of the slums, enrolls them in school, provides access the basic health care while they are in school and instills new hope in these children that a new life exists, in faith, and in education and jobs that provide an escape from the cycle of extreme poverty living in the slums.

MOHI operates 12-14 different cycles throughout Mathare Valley, the densely populated slums of Nairobi, home to 1 million people living on less that $2 / day.


As you might imagine, the challenges are great - broken homes, orphaned kids, alcohol and drug abuse, widespread prostitution, HIV runs rampant, in addition to poor living conditions - very little shelter, contaminated "black" water, rubbish (garbage) everywhere, dreadful air quality, extremely limited access to health care, two public bathrooms (for a fee) available to serve thousands. It goes on and on. It's unimaginable to those of us who exist in the comforts and conveniences of the US. Really, unimaginable.