Your gift will bring opportunity—to an individual, a family, a community— and with it, the hope for a better life!

While the economic turbulence is affecting us all in some way, it is the people at the bottom of the economic ladder that are the hardest hit. High food prices have been devastating to the poor and disadvantaged, causing chronically malnourished people to cut back on their already inadequate diets.

Kageno urgently needs your support to help our community members meet their critical needs through these tough times. Donations, no matter how large or small, can make a big difference: from buying a chicken to helping build a school or a clinic. Every little bit helps. Kageno remains humbled by the generosity of our donors in this economic environment and we look forward to putting your investment with us to work on behalf of the communities we serve in Kenya and Rwanda.

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Kageno, meaning "A Place of Hope" in a Kenyan dialect, is a registered 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization.

Kageno's MISSION is to transform impoverished communities into places of opportunity and hope – through the development of self-sustaining community directed programs in Education, Health, Ventures (Income Generation), and Environment. We believe it is essential to sustainable development to work with the community rather than giving simple aid or handouts.

Kageno identifies ravaged communities suffering from impoverishment, AIDS, genocide and limited access to healthcare, clean water, and education. Working with local leaders to identify needs, we help villages build schools, health centers, pharmacies, and sanitation and clean water systems and develop programs to help them protect their fragile environments. We then build community centers with learning tools and internet access, identify training programs that support our efforts to build local economies. For example, on Rusinga Island in Kenya, we taught women crafts-making skills and distributed microloans to replace prostitution. In Banda Village, Rwanda, we are in the process of building an eco-lodge for tourists that will be staffed by individuals from the community which support many of our other initiatives.

By supporting Kageno, you directly affect the lives of people living in these communities, giving them hope and opportunity. Kageno's interventions give the community the ability to develop skills and start new businesses, create jobs, invest in their environment, control the spread of infectious diseases and ultimately live better, healthier lives.

Kageno currently operates two programs in Kenya ( Kageno Rusinga and Kageno Mfangano )and a third in Banda Village, Rwanda.