Obunga Mega Mission
This month, Ndoto Community Church hosted a seven-day evangelism campaign for the community of Obunga, and the community responded: the church leaders took down the names and phone numbers of 191 people who said they had surrendered to the grace of God and were ready to be trained to follow Jesus. Pastor Michael Omondi and…
Starting a New Chapter
by John Seale Allison addresses a handful of initial students in 2009. This is the story of a tiny ministry with a dream. Allison Schlack, who grew up in Dallas, had her heart captured by a slum community in western Kenya. The city of Kisumu had two main slum communities, but one of them had…
Step Out Into Uncertainty
Ndoto’s sponsorship program is far more than just school fees and backpacks, and there’s one group of students that receives special investment and has become the envy of younger students. In Kenya, high school graduates take high-stakes exams in November, then spend December and January awaiting their scores. Then comes six months of applying to…
Guten Morgen!
Violet stands in front of the very classroom where she sat as a student last year, chalk in hand. “Guten Morgen!” she says, and the students echo her. The walls are familiar, but this time, Violet is a volunteer tutor at Kudho Secondary, doing her part to fill a gap for a nation that has…
Ndoto Community Church Pastor
BACKGROUND. Ndoto: For Africa’s Future is a Christ-centered community development organization that works in the Obunga slum of Kisumu, Kenya. Ndoto is a Swahili word meaning “dream.” We aim to give at-risk youth a chance to dream for themselves, their community, and the kingdom of God through education, discipleship, and development. As an organization, we believe that forgotten communities can…
Cleaning Day
Kenya began a new national holiday this year! October 10th is now Mazingira Day, a day for environmental conservation and preservation of natural resources. Kenya has become a global leader in the push for sustainability after decades of mediocre stewardship of the environment. Continual natural disasters, including both floods and droughts, have been worsened…
Farm Labor
Austine joined Ndoto three years ago Frankly, nobody loves a hard task, especially when you have no expectation of a reward. It takes a special kind of internal motivation to maintain your drive. Austine, one of our high school graduates, has this motivation in droves. Last month we talked about our mentorship program for graduates,…
The Graduates
A graduate from a year ago, Beverly, addresses this year’s class at the closing celebration on August 6 In Kenya, high school graduates spend nine months out of school before beginning college. It takes time for the final exams to be graded, and then additional months to hear back from the schools. Historically, this has…
Assistant Soccer Coach
BACKGROUND. Ndoto: For Africa’s Future is a Christ-centered community development organization that works in the Obunga slum of Kisumu, Kenya. Ndoto is a Swahili word meaning “dream.” We aim to give at-risk youth a chance to dream for themselves, their community, and the kingdom of God through education, discipleship, and development. As an organization, we believe that forgotten communities can…
Principled Tolerance
Twelve kilometers from our Ndoto offices, one of our students who graduated eight years ago is making a life for herself. Monica faced the barriers that teenage girls face in an urban slum, including cultural bias, low access to education, gender-based violence, and lack of proper hygiene and sanitation, not to mention the pervasive economic…
