Welcome. Here is an introduction to “The Dunga Project” by it’s original founder.  Sarah is currently not affiliated with “The Dunga Project.”

Thank you for your continued support of “our  kids”  in Kenya. We will introduce our new Executive Director in Kenya soon.

Sincerely,

The Board of Directors, Dunga Orphanage Project

The Beginning of the Dunga Project

My name is Sarah O’Brien and in 2003 I traveled to a remote village in Kenya, called Dunga. I was a volunteer at a school for orphaned children . The majority of these children had lost their parents due to complications from AIDS .

The Dunga Orphanage Project was created to address those needs and to provide Hope to the children of Dunga. Through US donors, an orphanage has been established, with education and health care for over 30 orphaned children. All the children are currently in boarding schools under our Education Program; with the exception of the ten youngest children who are in our Home Base Care Program.

The children are actively involved in giving back to their community. As a group, they visit widows and elders of their Luo tribe, bringing food, helping hands, songs, dances and smiles. They reach out to children’s jails, orphanages for infants with AIDS, and others in need.

The Dunga Orphanage Project, over the last four years has not only provided the basic human needs to over 30 orphan children,but has reached out to the other orphan and needy children in the village; by starting a clothing program and bringing clothing each year gathered from Island View Elementary, the sister school in Anacortes, Washington, to the Dunga Orphans School. The Dunga Orphanage Project also improved the existing feeding program at the school by adding a meal a day while it was in transition from one organization to another. The feeding program provides a healthy meal every school day to over 400 children.