Here in Kenya, we come alongside of many schools, helping out in any way we can as we serve these children in poverty.  Twice a year, we give all our 2000 +students a chewable tablet to prevent ringworm and tapeworms.  These are contagious and is a huge health concern for our students, due to the open sewers running through the informal settlements where they live.

In 2017, Bethany Joy’s 400 students were housed in small, dark classrooms constructed of iron metal sheeting and old timber on muddy ground. Because of your generosity, we were able to build a beautiful, sparkling school, where currently two thirds of our students attend.  But the number of students we serve has grown, and we need more classrooms!  250 current pupils are still left in the original temporary structures down the busy road.

Today we want to show you some of our scholarship students not in the actual city of Nairobi. This is Zare Primary School nestled in Taita Hills.  We took the 6 hour drive down Mombasa Road to visit our 21 students in this rural area.

One of our biggest goals in Kenya and India is to boost English literacy among our students.  Our children’s’ reading skills will determine opportunities for their future employment. I was dismayed to find that most schools in the slums have no reading books whatsoever.  Picture books are essential for young ones to learn!

We are writing to you today about food.  It is our biggest expense every month.  We buy all the ingredients for school breakfast and lunch in bulk, thereby getting the best prices. We serve uji (hot fortified porridge) every morning to all of our children and teachers.  Many have not had anything to eat since lunch the previous day due to food insecurity in their homes.

Let me introduce you to some of my favorite boys in Kenya!  At Bethany Joy School, we have about 20 young men living next to us.  They are all orphans, and have been abandoned by neighbors and relatives.  Walter , our principal at Bethany, has brought them to a small corrugated metal building next door to us, and now they are part of the Bethany Joy community!

Excessive rain has been falling in the country of Kenya, leading to widespread flooding, loss of homes and lives. Our school families have especially been impacted, living in temporary corrugated metal sheet dwellings, packed together in the slums.  Many have lost everything because of the overflowing rivers.

Everyday on our lunch menu we serve cabbage to our (almost 2000!) students. But last month, we decided to boost nutritional content by adding skumawiki once a week for lunch at Bethany Joy School.

Greetings from our happy teens at our first Teen Leadership Challenge (TLC) of 2024! We gathered 118 girls at Bethany Joy School for a day of learning about puberty and the changes it brings physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially. We have frank discussions about it all with whole group Kenyan speakers and small discussion breakout groups.

Your donor dollars are used in many ways in the very poor schools we are working with. We buy lots and lots of colorful children’s books for our students. Practicing to read is the best way to learn to read, and great Childrens’ books are a rarity in Kenyan classrooms. Our children are blessed to have a collection of them now for every age.

Bethany Joy School’s new building just turned one year old!

All of our almost 2000 children are served uji, a fortified porridge every morning.  For some it is the first thing they have eaten all day.  Here you see principal  Judy helping to serve as a teacher stirs the hot uji.

To all our family and friends of Watumull Children's Education, we are beyond excited to announce that Bethany Joy School in Kawangware, Nairobi has officially opened! February 15, 2023 was an exciting day as we had our grand opening.

We are excited to send you our most recent photos of the progress happening at Bethany Joy School campus in Kawangware, Nairobi. The existing metal structures have been torn down and excavation has begun! 

Welcome to the grand opening of the Gulab Watumull Learning Center! We just got professional photos back, so we want you to share with us in the joy of that special night in Nagpur, India!

In one week, we were able to hold two Teen Leadership Challenge events and serve over 450 young Kenyans! Our teenage girls leave this day encouraged, with reusable sanitary napkin kits, empowered to aim higher!

We send you greetings from all our Indian community! We just got back from a whirlwind 6-day tour of WFCF’s work in India!

We send you greetings from all our Indian community! We just got back from a whirlwind 6-day tour of WFCF’s work in India!

Greetings from Nairobi, where we are busy caring for our students. Here are the books you are helping us donate, washed, repaired, sorted by grade, to be placed in the children’s’ classrooms to read!

From East Africa I send all of you my love and thanks for the gifts we can give our students because we are working together!