Building Hope, Learning Together

CAMPAIGN FOR A NEW SCHOOL BUILDING

3D rendering of the future Kathy and Mike McNulty Academy

 

Since its inception, the Kathy and Mike McNulty Academy (KMMA) has experienced unprecedented growth, more than tripling in size to meet the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children on Rusinga Island, Kenya. Now the school and attached medical clinic have outgrown their small, rented facilities, and struggle to adequately serve the community. Friends of KMMA-CAITHS is leading the charge to build a new school: one designed to educate students and support community health and sanitation while considering local capacity for solar power, clean water, and ongoing upkeep. The new facility will be a place to grow, learn, and heal.

 

Friends of KMMA-CAITHS is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the Kenyan community-based organization CAITHS in their efforts to help the poor and vulnerable people of Rusinga Island, Kenya. CAITHS provides local solutions and expertise across a wide range of initiatives aimed at improving education, sanitation, and health. Their flagship program, the Kathy & Mike McNulty Academy (KMMA), offers free education to orphaned children, provides clean water and health supplies to the impoverished, revitalizes the denuded environment, and empowers women - all to help break the cycle of poverty in AIDS-ravaged Western Kenya.

 
 

Campaign goals

  • Build a permanent home for the Kathy and Mike McNulty Academy, complete with classrooms, administrative offices, kitchen, cafeteria, library, and outside areas for learning, gathering, and playing.

  • A new St. Patrick Clinic, on the same property, will include a waiting room, examining room, consulting room, sick bay, office, and pharmacy.

  • The aim for phase 1, to complete classroom space, is $150,000.

100% of your donation goes directly to help the needy on Rusinga Island, Kenya

 

students at KMMA REceive:

  • Free education by accredited teachers

  • Potable water systems for their homes

  • Government mandated uniforms and shoes

  • Two meals during school and holidays

  • Free health care services & medicine at St. Patrick Clinic

Benefits to the community:

  • Free health care services and at-cost medications provided at the St. Patrick Clinic

  • Sanitary supplies and hygiene education for school-age girls

  • Trees planted to improve soil quality and landscape stability

  • Training in basic skills and income-generating activities

 

“The future of Rusinga lies in the little children. The only way to liberate them is to give them their basic needs and education. I thank God for the few organizations that do this, such as the Kathy and Mike McNulty Academy.”

- FR. ROBERT SEWE, LOCAL FRANCISCAN FRIAR