Our Story

Mission: To increase access to secondary education for children in extreme poverty through merit-based scholarships, recognizing that these children will return to their respective communities as educated, innovate young people, who will improve their quality of life by breaking the cycle of poverty.

Vision: To reduce the number of orphaned and destitute children not going to school because of poverty.

Born in Maragoli, Kenya, Deborah Amoi (1936-2003) was an elementary school teacher who used her resources to help care and educate poor students from her community. DAF started in 2009 with 10 students and as of 2020, over 150 students have been sponsored to high school from over 30 villages in Kenya. Our target group is impoverished and/or orphaned 8^th graders who have been accepted to high school but lack school fees.

Unlike many countries in the West,  secondary education in Kenya is not free. Thus, to continue on past 8th grade, a high school student ends up paying around $500 per year. This becomes unachievable as the majority of Kenyans survive on less than 2 dollars a day, making it impossible to send their children to school. As a result, many students drop out of school and education is placed beyond their reach.