Past Projects
2025
Clean + Safe Female Showers
In November of 2025, we completed two major projects. Our first, and top priority, was the demolition and complete rebuild of a school’s female shower area, a situation that was truly heartbreaking. The existing “shower” was nothing more than a broken concrete space behind the dormitory, partially shielded by old, rusted sheets of metal full of holes. The girls were forced to bathe using buckets, with no proper shower heads, no clean floor, no adequate drainage, and no safe or private place to hang towels or change clothes.
While the boys’ shower area is also in need of a full rebuild, we chose to focus first on the girls’ facility in order to prioritize their hygiene, safety, and privacy. We constructed a brand-new shower building from the ground up, built entirely from cement to withstand the weather and provide long-term durability. The new facility includes six fully functioning shower heads, proper drainage, six faucets for handwashing and filling buckets, and a designated changing area.
This dormitory is home to 60 girls, and seeing clean, running water flow from the new showers brought tears to our eyes. Their so excited over this much-needed upgrade, and we are grateful for generous donors and volunteers giving their time and money to help provide them with the dignity, safety, and cleanliness every child deserves.
Check out the before and after pictures below:
The outside of the previous female showers
The inside of the previous female showers
The new female shower facility, complete with running water, shower heads, and changing area!
Tiling Classroom 2 + Needed Textbooks
The second major project of our 2025 trip was the tiling of the second of eight classrooms at FORWAC School—the same school where we completed the tiling of Classroom 1 in 2023. Thanks once again to generous donations, we were able not only to tile the entire classroom and its veranda, but also to purchase $1,000 USD worth of much-needed textbooks for the upcoming 2026 school year.
We are incredibly thankful for the opportunity to return to FORWAC School and continue building relationships with the faculty, staff, and students. Being welcomed back into the school, meeting families, and being invited into their homes is a gift we don’t take lightly. Most importantly, we are grateful to help improve the school’s physical facilities, creating a cleaner, safer, and more supportive learning environment for the children.
Classroom 2 (Middle Class) veranda’s Before and after tile!
The books that the donations were also able to fund!
2023
Clean Local Water
In 2023, we completed our first major project: a rainwater gutter and filtration system with two large tanks at a local church. Families no longer walk 2–3 miles daily for water. They now have safe, fresh water, almost at their doorstep. Rain water filters in through the gutter on all sides of the church, drains into two large water basins where it is filtered from debris and held in the tank. There are spouts at the bottom of each tank for retrieving water. The smiles and joy of the faces of the church and community leaders brought tears to our eyes once this project was completed. Two years later, on our trip in 2025, we made a visit to prayer and chat with the church leaders, and check on the systems functionality. We are happy to report that the system is still running perfectly and continuing to empower the community.
The before and during of the building and installing the water tanks!
The after!
Tiling Classroom 1
We also fundraised to tile a classroom at FORWAC School, a few hours from Bondo, drastically improving the learning environment and air quality for students in that classroom. (Part of our 2025 Project was tiling a second classroom at that same school!) In addition, we repainted both the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms, creating a cleaner, safer, and more welcoming space for the children. This project was near and dear to our hearts as tiling a room is a seemingly simple but huge difference maker for the quality of learning in Kenya. There are 8 classrooms in this specific school building we hope to continue tiling as the years go on!
The Baby Classroom (Classroom 1 of 8) at FORWAC school, complete with tile inside and out!
Returning, Reconnecting & Empowering Youth
Our work goes far deeper than physical projects. We revisit communities to reconnect with locals, identify ongoing needs, pause intentionally to pray together, share meals together, and support long-term growth.
A core part of our mission is spiritual mentorship — helping young people and young adults in Kenya develop personal faith and maturity. Through year of continued friendship, discipleship, and intentional engagement, we aim to empower the next generation to thrive not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally as well.
This is a picture of Nia Jane Akoo (The Founders’ daughter) during their work at FORWAC in 2025, as she sits in a chair in the Baby Classroom / Classroom 1, which they funded to tile during their 2023 trip!)
Full circle moment!