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Welcome to the official website of Okela School Charities, Inc. Our organization is dedicated to improving the lives and educational environment of the children in Okela Primary and Secondary Schools by funding one major  project every year. Working together with a Women's Group, we also provide food and clothing for the children. The schools are located in Okela Village, Nyanza Province of Kenya. The needs of the children are great, but their potential is immeasurable.
Okela School Charities also provides ongoing assistance to a group of 39 women in Okela, who have established a women's group with these goals: to sew uniforms for the orphans, to sew clothing to sell and help support themselves, to feed the children at the school, to assist church widows through self-help projects, to train women on home and financial management skills, and to promote health awareness campaigns, such as educating young women to protect themselves against the HIV virus. We are dedicated to help them meet their goals.
We are a non-profit corporation and all contributions are tax deductible
We want to thank you
for visiting our website. Our charity has completed the following projects:
built a new classroom for nursery-age children
built a water collection system for both schools
sent science equipment and books
bought tables for the science laboratory
provided ongoing support for the women's group
donated two sewing machines to the women's group
bought a generator
These are some of the results of our work:
School attendance has increased, as well as school performance because food is now provided for the hungry children.
Plans are underway to fully equip the new classroom as an early childhood development center.
The water system was in place in time for the spring rains.
The Women's Group has started a tailoring business and a lunch business
The Women's Group has provided food and clothing for orphans in the schools
With earnings from their tailoring business and lunch kiosk, they have paid for older children to take courses in carpentry and shoe-making and have trained young women to use sewing machines.
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