The Sophia Foundation (TSF)

About us

The Sophia Foundation (TSF) is registered as a Community Based Organization (CBO) since 2016. It is founded to meet the social needs of orphans and vulnerable children, whose lives remain trapped by poverty and HIV/AIDS in Kenya. We believe that if vulnerable children lives transformed and inspired, they will in turn transform their communities, Kenya and the World.

The mission of The Sophia Foundation Kenya (TSF Kenya) is to fight poverty and disease through advancing access to life skills for vulnerable children and improving economic development for widows in Pap Onditi, Kisumu County through a long-term, holistic approach which includes education sponsorship, life skills, business start-ups and support, training and child protection.

Our approach to development is holistic empowerment and life skills based interventions through community managed approach. We engage in community initiatives that focus on empowering these vulnerable children and widows in unlocking their potentials for self-actualisation and durable solutions.

Projects:
• One Goat, One Family: This is a revolving economic empowerment scheme intended to empower widows by giving a family a mature goat/sheep to rear. Beneficiaries will be selected through vulnerability selection criteria established by the project. Beneficiary forum will be held before distribution of goats/sheep to orient them on the project strategy. The family will own the livestock but will give back to the project the first born goat/sheep to be distributed to other beneficiaries.
• After School Art Project: Our After School Art (ASA) project focuses on development and nurturing talent through art. The project targets children between 4 to 15 years old. The art take place in a community centre where the children engage in both indoors and outdoors activities. The community centre is open to all children from the community who are interested in art. Volunteers are available on a regular basis to hold lessons and help to run the events. The project focuses on art which include drawing, painting, moulding, other talent related areas such as music, and sports. Prints of the children’s artworks are then sold and the proceeds are ploughed back to the project. The project also collaborates with the various relevant community stakeholders like educational institutions, children and social services departments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and individuals/groups, to promote talent development among children.

Lifetime experience with vulnerable children and widows in Pap Onditi village: This is a program that offers opportunities for international volunteers with passion and interest in working with vulnerable children and widows in Pap Onditi, Kenya. We want to promote networking, cultural diversity experience sharing and learning.

Nicholas Ojwando and Maryam Mostajir are the Founders of The Sophia Foundation (TSF).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.