Opportunity Fund for Developing Countries

Volunteer Overseas Administrators
Patrick Ngigi Women, Children & Health Maasai & Interior Region, Kenya	Qualifications and Experience: We have worked with Patrick for 11 years and can attest to his tireless efforts to improve the lives of impoverished women and children living in rural areas of Kenya. Patrick works diligently to ensure your donation reaches those most in need. For accountability, we require he send receipts, photos and reports of disbursement of your donated funds before additional funds are transfered. 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 and is currently enrolled in the MBA program at Moi University, Narok Branch. Patrick works diligently to ensure that needy children, especially girls and AIDS orphans, 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 orpahned sponsored children. His hard work is 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 female genital mutilation (FGM, circumcision) and forced child marriage. With a sponsor, girls can continue their education. Patrick organizes women's training programs to empower women; distributes bed nets so children 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."