Nearly 2.5 million people live in poverty in the slums and urban areas of Nairobi, Kenya. They lack the basic necessities of life, including adequate housing, clean water, and sanitation services. Educational opportunities are negligible. All kinds of diseases run rampant throughout the communities. The scarcity of jobs complicates every problem.

Nearly one million people live in the Mathare slum, an area of less than a square mile. Rivers of sewage run through the slum towns, carrying garbage and human waste. Most families live without electricity, running water, or toilets and crowd as many as 10 people into one-room huts made of scrap wood, corrugated tin, or mud.

Thousands of children have no homes but the streets, and turn to begging, stealing, prostitution, and drug-dealing to survive.

In this dark wilderness, a partnership of American Churches and Kenyan ministries, called Hope Partnership, works to bring physical, emotional, and spiritual light through education and training to break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. There are well over 15,000 children sponsored who receive an excellent Christian education, medical care, and the hope found only in Christ Himself.

For more information about Hope Partnership click here.

A team of people from Mountain Christian Church will go to Nairobi, Kenya to work with the urban poor in the slums of the Mathare Valley alongside long term missionaries from Missions of Hope International (MOHIAfrica.org/).

This trip includes involvement in...