12/05/2026
WE WENT BACK. AND WHAT WE SAW BROKE US.
Let us take you somewhere most people will never go.
Dandora Dumpsite.
Not in a documentary. Not on a news clip. We went there, physically, and deliberately. We needed to see it again after we visited it sometimes back after we got into contact with some learners who were rescued by teachers from Christian Family School Korogocho. We needed to remember why we do what we do.
What we found reminded us that our work is far from over.
The smell hits you first. Then the silence of people who have normalized suffering. Mountains of waste stretching as far as your eyes can carry. And in the middle of all of it, human beings. Mothers. Children. Families. Not visiting. Living.
We saw many mothers with their children, but this particular one caught our attention. We saw a mother, four children beside her. No shelter. No mattress. No door to close at night. Just the open sky above a dumpsite and nothing else.
Our team stood there as we were asking ourselves a hard question:
What does it mean to celebrate progress when people nearby are still sleeping on garbage?
A Year Ago, Here Is What Shaber Did and still does to number of kids at Christian Family School Korogocho:
When Christian Family School rescued children from Dandora, we moved.
We did not wait for a perfect plan. We acted.
✅ We provided school uniforms and learning materials for over. 30 learners
✅ We are currently paying school fees for 5 of those children
✅ We took them to children's festivals, many for the very first time
✅ We ran holiday feeding programs so hunger would not steal their holidays
✅ Through our partnership with Digitoto, we introduced them to computer literacy, because the future is digital and no child should be locked out of it
✅ We are now building women empowerment programs because when a mother is stable, her children are safe.
These are not small things.
These are lives redirected.
But Here Is The Truth Nobody Wants To Say:
For every child we reached, there are dozens we have not.
For every family we supported, there are families still sleeping under the sky.
Dandora is not just a dumpsite.
For thousands, it is home, it is income, it is survival.
And survival without dignity is its own kind of violence.
The children there are not without potential.
The mothers there are not without strength.
They are without basic amenities. Basic protection. Basic humanity.
No clean water. No stable shelter. No school. No safety net.
Just resilience being stretched beyond what resilience was ever meant to carry.
So What Happens Next?
We are not stopping.
The women empowerment program we are building is designed to create self-reliance, sustainability and independence not dependency. We believe in equipping, not just giving.
But we also believe in being honest.
The need is bigger than us.
And that is why we keep showing up and why we keep telling the story.
Because awareness without action is just noise.
And action without community is just exhaustion.
We need more people at this table.
If you have ever wanted to be part of something real not polished, not perfect, but genuinely changing lives this is your invitation.
