Nico Orphanage Home

Nico Orphanage Home

MDGs-Education, Poverty, HIV/AIDS

About Us

At Nico Orphanage Home, we believe the most important thing is to teach our children honor, dignity, and self-respect. We can accomplish this by making sure that they all have:

  • A full stomach
  • A safe and secure environment
  • An experience of being loved and a chance to develop social skills
  • A chance for a proper education
  • An experience of compassion, so they learn the skill of caring for others

Our Mission

  • To help the underprivileged, homeless, and hungry children
  • To help the children who are cast away, forgotten, and left behind
  • To help the children whose lives are destined for slavery due to poverty
  • To help the poorest of the poor parents create the possibility of a happy future for their children
  • To care and educate the children in a beautiful and loving surrounding, inspiring them toward vocational or university education
  • To make it possible for the children to grow up and integrate productively into society, so they can live successful, fulfilling lives with honor and dignity and help others

Our dedicated and creative work is already making a difference for those we can reach. We love them, we nurture them, we teach them, we inspire them, we show them what’s possible. Our holistic approach gives the children a real chance to have a life that is neither slavery nor misery.

We use Montessori teaching methods for the little ones – and other creative programs where the older children have the possibility to discover their own talents. They engage in dancing classes, singing and art classes, yoga lessons to bring out their creativity and awareness.

Our Community

Mogonga Mkt is about three kilometers from Ogembo Town, between Kisii to Kilgoris. Our district is newly created Kenyenya district. This is a poor and highly populated area that depends on agriculture for survival. The people here grow tea as a cash crop and do livestock rearing. The yields are low because of poor farming and massive land fragmentation. HIV/AIDS has heavily ravaged this area and has a large number of people living with AIDS who have not accepted their status. It has a large burden of orphans due to HIV/AIDS.

History

We’ve been certified as a respected and honorable CBO since 2007 and are strictly monitored by the Children’s Department/ Ministry of Home Affairs, Ogembo, Kenya. The current total number of children we serve is 81, with 45 kids staying in the orphanage and 36 living with foster parents.