Patrick Ngigi
Women, Children & Health
Maasai & Interior Region, Kenya

Patrick has been headmaster at many remote, rural schools in Kenya. He is currently headmaster at Oimerru Primary School located in a Maasai farming community. Oimerru has no running water or electricity. Patrick holds a Bachelor's of Education degree from Kenyatta University, Nairobi and is currently enrolled in the MBA program at Moi University, Narok Branch.

Patrick loves children and works diligently to ensure that needy children can attend school. Patrick makes home visits to assess the needs of sponsored children. He makes monthly visits on "parents' day" to the schools where OFDC has sponsored children who are orphaned. His hard work can be verified by the numerous awards and recognitions he has received from community and parent councils, the Board of Education and the Kenyan government.

Patrick established a girls' safe house in Narok where girls can seek shelter from circumcision and child marriage. With a sponsor, girls can continue their education.

Patrick organizes women's training programs to empower women; distributes bed nets so chldren can sleep protected from malaria carrying mosquitoes; and oversees disbursement of funds for the building of latrines and water catchments at schools so children can have improved sanitation and clean water.

Agnes Nkoitoi
Children's School Sponsorship
Melelo, Kenya

Qualifications and Experience:

Ms. Nkiotoi was to be married off at the age of 13. She protested but had no voice. Miraculously Agnes found a sponsor so that she could continue her education. At Maasai Girls High School, she was made school prefect (school leader). Agnes received her diploma from Mosoriot Teachers' College. She is now a Senior Teacher at Olpukoti Primary School.

Agnes is very grateful for the donations she receives from OFDC so that she can send girls to school who otherwise would be married off at an early age. She reports that with these funds she is able to purchsase undergarments for girls who have never had them. "Now," she writes, "these children can play freely and be like the other children."