Marafiki Community – Nairobi, Kenya

Marafiki means ‘Friend’ in Swahili and the founder of Marafiki Community, a young Kenyan named Izzo made it his personal mission to assist the desperately poor in the IDP (Internationally Displaced Persons) camps that sprang up in 2007 after the post-election violence of that year. These camps house over 600 hundred families that were forced to leave their livelihoods […]

Strong Hearts Ethiopia – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

A young Ethiopian charismatic is called to embrace the Korah community. Tucked in amongst one of Addis Ababa’s wealthiest areas serving as home to ex-­‐pats, countless diplomatic missions, shops and gated communities live tens-­‐ of-­‐thousands of Ethiopia’s impoverished children and adults, HIV victims as well as the sick and infirmed. His vision, to change the […]

Friends of the Heart – Kampala, Uganda

A Ugandan couple almost dies when they simultaneously develop terminal heart disease in a country where there is no government treatment for this life threatening illness. A Korean philanthropist steps up just in the nick of time and miraculously provides the airfare to his home country and the money necessary to save both their lives. When John King […]

Experiment Albania – Tirana, Albania

Project title: Construction of a volunteer house in Tirana Experiment Albania Association collaborates with many other institutions in Albania and assists in various social projects for marginalized communities. It also undertakes the administration role for foreign volunteers coming to work individually or in groups to these social projects in the country. The requirements of foreign […]

Kenyan SchoolHouse – Nairobi, Kenya

A deeply personal encounter with a village of migrant children picking coffee in Kenya led to the creation of the Kenyan SchoolHouse program in 2002. While filming a documentary on the worst forms of child labor, program founder Len Morris and his crew enrolled 65 kids in school by paying the fees their families couldn’t afford. As […]