Karundas Children's Home Sponsorship

The Karundas Children’s Homes, about three hours north of the capital city of Nairobi, is a 50-acre farm where about 70 children between the ages of 3 and 18 years live. The Homes include:

• The House of Joy was originally designed as a home for abandoned babies – a situation that is common due to the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS, which leads many parents to leave their newborns at hospitals or other public places so they might be better cared for.

• Rebecca Home was established as a home for HIV-infected and affected children. Many adults in Kenya have died of HIV/AIDS, leaving children in the care of their grandparents. But grandparents often don’t have the means to provide for these children, so Rebecca Home takes them in and gives them love, food, education and medical care – including a successful anti-retroviral therapy for the HIV-infected children.

• The House of Deborah was established to meet the needs of vulnerable girls from the immediate communities who are faced with many cultural and social challenges, including forced/early marriage, sexual abuse, neglect, and school drop out.