A year of growth and promises kept

December 30, 2025 by Kenya Kids Can

What a tender, miraculous year.
When we found out that several thousand ninth graders would join our program in January, we were thrilled about this additional year of learning and nutrition for our students. And we admit: It was a little daunting to consider how we’d feed almost 3,000 more children every day.
As it turns out, we needn’t have worried.
So many of you showed up with your extravagant kindness and helped us nurture our students the entire year.
 

Our year by the numbers
In 2025, because of...

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Rift visit, part 1 (Olivia’s story)

September 16, 2022 by Nicole Owens

 
Arrival
 
It’s half past nine in the morning and warmth radiates from the valley floor. We climb from our vehicle onto bright, hot dust, stretching limbs gone stiff from eighty minutes of a jostled negotiation with brush and backroads.
We’ve looked forward to this visit for weeks: two former KKC students, Olivia and Rachel (their names changed to preserve privacy), are both home on their break between school terms, and it’s been a while since Lucy has seen them. Lucy is our...

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A Call to Battle

July 8, 2019 by Steve Peifer

Steve Peifer, founder of Kenya Kids Can, recently visited Kenya for the first time since 2013. He shares this account of his time here.

It had been six years since we had left Kenya, and the twins were about to graduate from high school. Their high school was taking a senior trip to Iceland, and it prompted a conversation with my youngest son:

Ben: Our senior trip is to Iceland.

Me: Nice!

Ben: Dad, black people don’t go to Iceland.

Me: I didn’t know that! Where do...

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