Phil and Sarah met Edward in 2009 when they were living in Kenya. Edward had a dream… to build a school for disadvantaged children in the village he grew up in. While visiting the village, Phil and Sarah were struck by the children’s desperate desire to learn; but their parents simply couldn’t afford to send them to school. They drove away from the village determined to do something to help ease this situation. Together with Edward, they founded Open Hearts and Minds; they built a school in this deprived community in western Kenya for children whose families cannot afford to send them to school.
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We are so privileged in the western world to have easy access to education. Fact: up to 1.4 million children do not attend primary school in Kenya. But with your help we can change this and make these children’s dreams come true; now they can look forward to their future with hope and open hearts and minds.
Find out how you can help in our mission to bring education to these children.
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It’s as cheap as a chocolate bar!
17.01.2021
Like most other countries, in response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic Kenya implemented a lockdown in mid-March. With families being told to stay at home and to not go out for work, the...
17.01.2021
While 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, it has been the strangest in our 10 year journey at Open Hearts and Minds School! The year started off as normal...
26.05.2020
Our clean water scheme has already helped over 100 families have safe drinking water. In Europe and America, we take for granted the clean water that flows from our taps. However, life is...
My children love sponsoring Joseph through the Open Hearts and Minds School. We particularly asked if we could sponsor a child who is the same age as our son, so that we could watch him grown and compare their lives to see what differences there are - it has been quite an eye opener for all of us, and a brilliant lesson for our children. We enjoy receiving the school reports and photographs giving us an update on his progress. It is amazing to think we are supporting a child through school for just the price of a chocolate bar a day - it is incredible and so easy to do.
I love that I can help someone that I haven’t met! Sponsoring Kevin and Grace means I can give them a chance at a better future than they would have had. I really love getting the photos and seeing the joy in the children’s faces… you can tell they really love going to school. Having visited Africa myself I know that the need there is so great; but the little that I can give makes me feel I’m doing some good.
I started sponsoring Violet when the school first started. I was especially privileged to be able to meet Violet and visit the school in 2016. It was the most amazing experience of my life. I am now also sponsoring a six year old boy called Brian, and I have already had a letter from him and reports from the teachers about his progress. I look forward to watching him develop in the same way that I have seen Violet progress. It's really amazing that you can actually change a child's life - and give them hope for the future - by spending less than the cost of a packet of crisps a day. The satisfaction you get from knowing that these children really appreciate their opportunities, and that you are giving them the bedrock of an excellent education to prepare them for their future is priceless.
OHAM is registered as a non-government organisation in Kenya: No. OP.218/051/2009/092/5676.
OHAM is a 501(c)(3) public charity in the USA. Donations and contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
OHAM is recognised as a charity in the UK by HMRC for tax purposes. This means you can Gift-Aid your donations.
