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Furnishing the Library

Your donation will go towards getting seats, shelves, tables and plumbing

Study Infrastructure

donations have enabled us get books, tablets and research materials

Networking

Donations have enabled our internet connectivity

Phase three

Help us complete our recreation facilities

Current Campaign

Kongoni Community Library

The resource centre was established to meet the challenges the community in Kongoni, Likuyani Sub-county and the environs were going through.  We identified education as the key to unlocking this problem.  We realized that a community library would do the magic to provide access to the dearly needed resources to empower the community.

Strategically located, it is the only one in the area serving 3 counties of Uasin Gishi, Nzoia and Kakamega.  We are so thankful to our friends and partners who believed in us and offered to support us from early stage.  We do not take it for granted.

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Voluteers

Our Causes

Our objective is collaboration with travel industry partners, organizations and global citizens who are interested in supporting poverty relieve through sustainable and social development programs to improve quality of life to the vulnerable on a 3 pillar platform: Education, Health and Sports.

Library Services

We offer reading space, lend books, internet access, and computer classes. 

Donated25%
Raised: $17000.00
Goal: $70000.00



A Safari with a purpose!

We are experienced travel experts.  We recommend that you participate in a “giving back to society” project and end with a refreshing tour in the African Untamed Wilderness Africa Untamed Wilderness or just take a break at one of our pristine beaches in Kenya or Zanzibar.  Just give us your dates of travel and purpose of visit and leave the rest to us.  We will take you there!

Caring for the needy

They say that it is the wearer of the shoe who knows where it pinches.  We have been there before so we understand what it feels to go hungry.  We are grateful to our partners and friends who support us with resources to reach out to the needy and vulnerable in our society. 

Donated10%
Raised: $1000.00
Goal: $100000.00



Recreation Center

The availability of a mini conference room, restaurant, modern and traditional kitchens as well as Dream Gardens offers opportunity for team building and retreat services for small teams or cooperate, family or wedding parties, schools and even church groups.  Accommodation rooms will offer a complete retreat services.




Empowerment Center

The activities offered here are carefully tailored towards empowering the community; be it training sessions or life skill activities.  The results are measured and follow-ups made where possible.




Resource Center

We offer activities that are geared towards impacting the youth with skills to make them realize their potential and talents.  21st century computer skills in coding and computer programing.

Caring for the needy

They say that it is the wearer of the shoe who knows where it pinches.  We have been there before so we understand what it feels to go hungry.  We are grateful to our partners and friends who support us with resources to reach out to the needy and vulnerable in our society

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What we’ve been up to

Testimonials

It started as a dream when I first met a couple from Florida USA, Tom and Jean Penny who visited Kenya on holiday in 2006…
Gari and Sheila Muldoon
Books are power

“So much great progress! Thanks be to God for servants like you.  He is enabling you to do wonderful things for the community!”

Mike and Karen
Michael and Karen Schley Foundation

“Thank you for sharing these remarkable results.  The building is already transforming life for the people in the region and it is not even a year old.  We are pleased to have had a part in helping it come into existence”

Jean T. Penny, RN, PhD, ARNP
American Friends of Kenya

“This is absolutely amazing to put it mildly. Where do you get the energy? Way cool & should make feeding the masses more economical (just kidding…but probably true too). Patricia is an absolute saint in my book. You, Rafiki, are a man of miracles. (Isn’t this kitchen similar to the one at Jamii?) The Bishop obviously knows a good thing when he sees it. Also noticed that the ‘Library’ has morphed into a Resource, Recreation, & Empowerment center.  What a wonderful blessing for Kongoni. Congratulations & Mungu akubariki!”

Dr. Wayne Silver
President – American Friends of Kenya

“I actually teared up when I read this. I am grateful that AFK and I were able to help with a project that is so meaningful and life-transforming. Bless, you, Elphas, for dreaming and making the dream come true. And, of course, bless Jean too!”

Ms. Doreen Amwoga
Sub-county Administrator

“This is a community library and library services are devolved to the county government.  This is very good because a reading culture makes the community enlightened.  We will give you support and it will come this way, when we go to ‘barazas’ (public gatherings) we will be telling people about the community library that has been launched here near our offices, it has always been there and this is now in a bigger space.  Thank you so much and we will keep working together”

Rev, Fr. John Bosco
Clergy

“I am a member of this library and I want to commend you for the wonderful job you have done.  I will encourage my congregation to sign up for membership and to make maximum use of your facility”

Become A Volunteer

Join us for a noble course

Being at the sub-county headquarters and surrounded by churches, schools and other social amenities like a health center, Kongoni Community Library, Resource, Recreation and Empowerment Center offers opportunity to volunteers to help in any of these areas as well as general upkeep of our library. Please consider giving:

Talent-Specific Volunteering

Volunteers are needed throughout the year to help with supporting our youth improve in their talents, be it sports, dance, or music. If you are interested in helping with events, please email us and you will be contacted as needs arise.

Photographers/Videographers

It has been proven that people prefer images and videos over reading text. Let us know if you’d like to help us capture visuals to communicate important points to our audience.

If you are interested in filling any of these roles or want more information, please email us at volunteers@a-cbo.org or call our office at +254 722 279056.

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    Message from the Director of Operations

    It started as a dream when I first met a couple from Florida USA, Tom and Jean Penny who visited Kenya on holiday in 2006.   When they traveled back to the US, they sent a parcel with money and other items that were to be delivered to a Masai elder in Amboseli National Park.  When they received feedback that the delivery was done successfully,  they put all their trust in me and started engaging me to organize all their subsequent trips to Kenya.  This followed with an introduction to the American Friends of Kenya (AFK) team who immediately took me as their Kakamega County Network Representative.  It is the supplies that I started receiving from AFK that gave me the confidence to set up the library.

    My passion to set up the CBO as a ladder to serve the community effectively came about from the high profile clients I was entrusted with to handle and accompany as the Customer Service Executive to Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, such as: In 2006 – Mr. Raymond G. Chambers family who is a philanthropist and humanitarian who currently serves as the World Health Organization Ambassador for Global Strategy. In 2007 – Millennium Promise main donor team to Tanzania and many other top-class clients traveling to this part of the world.

    It has been a journey of dreams and I cannot thank our partners and friends enough for walking this journey with us, sacrificed their time and valuable resources to support us to get where we are. Special mention goes to Jean T. Penny aka Mama Safi, Mr Wayne Silver, Mr Michael and Karen Schley and Mr Gary and Sheila Muldoon, to name but a few.

    We already have a chain of success stories to tell from the time we opened the library to the public.  We thank all who believe in us and have started working with us to impact the community.  This project is not limited to benefit the Kongoni community alone but the country and the world at large.

    Kongoni Community Library Timeline

    2015
    Partners/donors: AFK

    Genesis

    Library services commences. Hosted by the Youth Empowerment Centre – Likuyani Sub-county, Kongoni Ward.

    2016
    Partners: AFK

    Logistics

    – Library services
    – Registration of A-CBO

    2017
    Partners: AFK, Kongoni Sec & Pri Schools

    Partnerships

    – Library services
    – Partnership with Kongoni Sec. and Kongoni Pr. Schools (supporting the schools with books and sports equipment)

    2018
    Partners: AFK, Kongoni Sec & Pri Schools

    CSR

    – Library services
    – Partnership with Kongoni Secondary, Kongoni Primary. Emanyinya Secondary and Oloile Secondary Schools (supporting the schools with more books and sports equipment)
    – Partners: AFK, Michael and Karen Schley Foundation, and Books are Power

    2019
    Partners/donors: AFK, Books are Power, The Pollination Project (TPP), Michael and Karen Schley Foundation

    Kongoni Network

    – Library services
    – Formation of Kongoni Network with the addition of 3 more schools to now 7 schools (supporting the schools with more books, sports equipment, computers, projectors and internet services)
    – Commencement of construction of Kongoni Community Library

    2020
    Partners/donors: AFK, Books are Power, The Pollination Project (TPP), Michael and Karen Schley Foundation

    Opening

    – Opening of our new library and construction work of the second phase of the project commence
    – Growth of Kongoni Network with the addition of 2 more schools to now 9 schools (supporting the schools with more books, sports equipment, computers, projectors and internet services)
    – Collaboration with computer training groups with projects to help our students learn computer skills in coding and computer programming – https://ic4.site/, https://edutab.africa/

    2021
    Partners/donors: AFK, Books are Power, The Pollination Project (TPP), Michael and Karen Schley Foundation

    Recreation Facilities

    – Library services with more improved and conducing reading environment. The number of library users increased
    – Recreation facilities 95% complete but already in use (conference room and a restaurant)
    – Phase 3 construction work begins (accommodation facilities)
    – Kongoni Network activities continue (supporting the schools with more books, sports equipment, computers, projectors and internet services)
    – More computer training projects to help our students to learn computer skills in coding and computer programming; https://ic4.site/, https://edutab.africa/
    – The joining of  https://tutor-web.net/login with the supply of tablets both for use in the library to improve mathematics skills as well as other activities to support the students with items to improve their livelihood such as tablets, food stuff and sanitary towels.

    Our Team

    Patrick Amwayi

    Patrick is a form four graduate and the alumnus of Kongoni Primary and Kongoni Secondary schools.  H…
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