Project24

Project24 is an initiative that was started between the LCMS Office of International Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya. This initiative provides school boarding facilities in Kenya that give vulnerable children the opportunity successfully to complete primary or secondary school education while living at a site, a home away from home. Each site provides a Christ-centered, loving, caring and safe environment. Every pupil is afforded daily opportunities for Scripture engagement, catechesis and worship. The goal is for him or her to grow in faith and celebrate Christ’s claim on his or her life in joyful recognition of God’s forgiveness worked by grace through faith.

The boarding facilities provide several services such as adequate lodging, meals, school fees and related school expenses, medical care, an appropriate play area, adult oversight, scholastic tutoring, emotional support and spiritual care. This is provided free of cost to the children and their families during the school year. On school holidays, children are expected to return to their families, extended families or clans to foster family connections and to help develop their ancestral identities. There are four operational sites and the hope for 24 in the future.