Kenya

• Launched Mobile Computer Lab program funded by Kids Against Poverty
• Plasse Family clinic opens laboratory to improve services and speed up diagnosis
• Launched the Kageno Stabilized Brick making project
• Received a grant from the Western Union Foundation to expand the Micro-loan program
• Hosted the first annual fundraising event at Talisman in Nairobi
• Launched the Lois Hill "It's Time to Change a Life" watch campaign in Kenya
• Launched the Kageno/Floresta Dairy Goat Project on Mfangano
• Construction of the Kageno Mfangano Nursery School kitchen completed and 150 children are receiving a daily meal through the nutritious feeding program
• Completed construction of the Kageno Health Clinic on Mfangano

Rwanda

• Launched daily English lessons for interested community members in Banda
• Hosted Simon Collier to conduct a three month intensive hospitality training for potential eco-lodge staff members
  
• Launched Kageno/Inure soap and candle making project funded by USAID Destination Nyungwe Small Grants Program
• Community Garden/Bio-intensive Agricultural Project commenced with the training of 50 local farmers
• SPG Architects plans take form

Worldwide

• Welcomed volunteers Vincent Martinelli, Erin Bresnahan, Simon Collier, Trevor Smith and Michael Maloff
• Completed a communication analysis and developed a communication plan to be incorporated into the Orphan Sponsorship Program
• CROCS distribution in Haiti

Press

• Tonic article

• Kageno is featured on NPR

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Kenya

• Plasse Family clinic open everyday with a full time nurse and community health worker on staff
  
• Construction of the Kageno Mfangano Nursery School completed and is operating with 150 students
• KG Micro-loan and Savings Program, now has 196 beneficiaries
• Bio-intensive Agriculture Garden and tree nursery established
• Launched the Kageno Briquette Project
• Launched the Kageno/Floresta Dairy Goat Project
• World AIDS Day mobilization/awareness event with 2,000 in attendance

Rwanda

• Sue Folk Health Center in Banda village is up and running, serving over 100 patients a day
• Krickett and Randle Goss Clean Water Project completed and is serving more than 400 individuals a day
  
• Launched Kageno Orphan Assistance and Sponsorship Program
• Completed construction of the first two Nursery school buildings
• The Pharmacy and Family Health Clinic are constructed in Banda Village. The Krickett and Randal Goss Clean Water Project is completed in Banda Village.

Worldwide

• Kageno Summer Night- Hosted by Danielle Levine
• Kageno Harambee - “A Village Event” Hosted by Donna Karen
• Welcomed volunteers Samira Nasser, Mieke Kriepes, Kevin Messacar and James Wilton
• Partnered with MBAs Without Borders to develop a business plan and marketing Strategy for our Eco-Tourism Lodge in Rwanda
  

Press

• Tonic article

• Kageno is featured on NPR

• The Kageno Orphan Assistance and Sponsorship program is launched.
• The Kageno Mfangano Nursery School is designed and constructed.
• SPG Architects design the structures for the Kageno Rwanda project.
• Floresta sponsors a bio-intensive workshop.
• Krickett Goss Microloan Program is launched.
• The Rwandan Ministry of Health accepts Kageno’s plans for the proposed health center in Banda Village, Rwanda.
• The annual World AIDS Day Mobilization and Awareness Event on Rusinga Island in Kenya is held, attended by over 2000 people.

• Kageno Executive Director / Co-founder Dr. Frank Andolino, leads a group of six Texans to the Kageno Kenya project site. The group from Texas facilitates sponsorship of a new school and library, along with a feeding program for the 186 children who attend the school. The Kageno Kids Program is launched at a party to raise awareness for the Kageno Kids Art & Cultural Exchange. More than $6000 is raised.
• Pearson, an international media company, donates books for the new school library. Two teenage students from New York City donate funds to hire a school nurse and purchase medicine.
• The Dreyfus Health Foundation and Kageno sponsor the first Partnership for Better Health workshop.

• On April 28th the project is officially reopened under the Kageno Kenya name. The ceremony marks the official opening of the Kate Spade Computer Center, the Plasse Health Clinic and VCT, and the Rusinga Island Clean Water Project, and is attended by representatives from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, and myriad Kenyan government officials. +The first Kageno “Not-So-Silent Auction” is held for nearly 250 supporters of Kageno and endorsed by Meryl Streep, Doctor Paul Farmer, and Jacqueline Murekatete to raise awareness and funds for Kageno Kenya and to launch Kageno Rwanda.
• Kageno leadership meets with a myriad of Rwandan national ministries and leaders to begin relationship building and survey the Rwanda project.
• The annual commemoration of AIDS World Day drew over 1200 participants.

• Latrines and water tanks are constructed.
• Kageno begins work with UNDP on a large-scale reforestation project funded by a U.N. grant.
• Money raised from the first U.S. based Kageno fundraiser is pooled with grant funds awarded by Peace Corps/USAID to fund completion and supply of the Plasse Health Clinic and Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center (VCT).

• A representative of the U.S. Embassy performs a site visit to the Kenya project, which results in new funds for the ICC.
• The German Development Agency (DED) approves funding for a sanitation project, which includes the construction of latrines and a clean water project.
• Executive Director Frank Andolino first meets with the original project founders while on a trip to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. The group goes on to formulate the current organizational model. The center and project are renamed Kageno, meaning “ A Place of Hope” in Dholuo.
• The second annual commemoration of world AIDS Day on Rusinga Island is held. Hundreds of people turn out to receive the HIV/AIDS message, and participate in sporting events, music, and videos.

• Alphonce Okuku and Peace Corps volunteer Rob Place expanded the youth group to include a computer project and crafts project housed within the ICC. These programs help develop job skills as well as generate income for those involved.
• The youth group hosts its first “Youth Against AIDS Day”, handing out red ribbons and educating the public.

• Alphonce Okuku and concerned community members form a youth group to educate young people about the AIDS epidemic that was decimating their community.