Children With Disabilities Fund International

In kenya, cdfi supports approximately 260 disabled children and their families. Cdfi employs ten staff to coordinate the program. Cdfi pays the school fees for those children who are able to attend school and coordinates a child sponsorship program, where sponsors are put in direct communication with their sponsored child and his or her family, and encouraged to pray for the child. Cdfi has established a micro enterprise system which enables parents of the children in the program to support themselves. Cdfi purchased seeds and fertilizer for every family in the program so that they could grow their own food. Because these families live in mud houses without plumbing or electricity, and with very little furniture, the disabled children were sleeping either on thin mats or on the ground. Cdfi purchased mattresses, sheets and pillows for every child in the program. Cdfi paid for the construction of a bath house on the property which was purchased the previous year for headquarters for the program. Six abandoned disabled children have come into the custody of cdfi and reside at a foster home built on the property.