Project Overview

Through our partnership with Foundation Ministries International (FMI) we are actively involved in supporting orphans and widows in western Kenya. We would like to introduce you to Dan Agao and Joseph Allen. We have been in a long standing relationship with these men for many years and they are faithful, trustworthy men. We know you will be encouraged to hear of their work with orphans and widows.

Dan and Agnes Agao live in western Kenya where Dan is a local church pastor. He is a long time member of the Kenya Team of FMI. In eighteen years, Dan has proven to be a man of integrity, an excellent teacher and pastor, and most importantly has a heart for helping widows and orphans. Long before FMI began to help Dan and his wife Agnes, they had a functioning ministry to widows and orphans. Their method was simply to find a Christian couple or perhaps a single woman or widow and ask them to take one or more orphans to provide shelter and food if possible. Dan and Agnes would provide some monthly allotment of food and raise money to keep the children in school. They worked similar to the foster care program in the USA except most probably the children would remain there until they completed school. Many of the households of couples and widows already had children, so they could fit right in and be raised in a Christian household like other african children rather than in an institution.

Today Dan and Agnes help nearly 50 orphans and 11 widows. About seven of the children reside with Dan and Agnes so they know first hand about rearing orphans. In addition to the monthly care, Dan has also been instrumental with help of FMI in constructing houses for several widows in the traditional African way of mud, sticks and metal roof. Some had been living under a tree when their homes were constructed.

Joseph and Sarah Allen live in western Kenya. Jeseph is a local church pastor and has been a member of the Kenya Team of FMI for 14 years. Joseph and his family live in the same region as Dan and Agnes Agao. In addition to leading the local congregation, Joseph teaches pastors’ seminars across Kenya and into Tanzania most every month. Many years ago Joseph and Sarah began to assist widows and orphans on an ongoing basis. They found Christian homes for children with couples, widows and single ladies. After watching them for many years, FMI leadership decided to assist Joseph and Sarah so they could enlarge the program and also make it more consistent. Today they assist nearly 50 children and 18 widows on a continuing basis. Several of the orphans and one widow reside in their own household. They do not ask people to do what they are unwilling to do themselves.
In addition to the food provided by the pastors, the older children and widows that are physically able plant small plots or gardens every year to raise corn, tomatoes, onions, sweet potatoes and other crops to supplement their monthly help. This also teaches the children to farm and as Africa is still very rural, this may be the way they survive in future years.