Sarah and Phil met Edward in Kenya when Sarah was volunteering at the school where Edward was the deputy head teacher. Edward had a dream…to build a school for disadvantaged children in his home town of Kokoth Kateng in Western Kenya. When Sarah and Phil learnt more about his dream, it touched their hearts. The more they learned about the extreme poverty in that area and gaps in the educational system, the more they wanted to help change this situation.
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When visiting Kokoth Kateng with Edward, they saw a community left behind to struggle in modern Kenya. Did you know they don’t have access to clean water?
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Our school is making a child’s dream of an education come true!
Sarah, Phil, and Edward opened OHAM Primary School in 2010 in a small borrowed schoolhouse in Kokoth Kateng. We started with ten children and now have over 100 children… can you imagine?!
Read more about how we’ve grown year-by-year
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We have become one of the best performing primary schools in the area based on the children’s exam results! We are so proud of everyone at the school for this amazing achievement.
Give something back today and join us in transforming more children’s lives! Sponsor a Child today!
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SOME FORMIDABLE FACTS! If you lived in Kenya instead of UK or USA |
| ♦ You would likely die 20 years younger and have an eight times higher risk of dying in infancy. |
| ♦ You are four more times likely to be unemployed – most of the educated people leave the community to find work in cities, while others scratch out a living from the land or by weaving baskets sold in the local markets. |
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♦ You are 11 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS – leaving single parents or grandparents to raise young children with no education. |
Edward Odhiambo is a native of Kokoth Kateng, Kenya who has always dreamed of building a high-quality school in his community. He is a qualified teacher and spent three years teaching at a charitable school and now teaches at a government-run primary school in Kenya.
Sarah Clements-Boyer was born in England and enjoyed teaching ‘A’ level Psychology for 13 years. Since then she has spent considerable time volunteering in schools and children’s homes in Tanzania, Ecuador and Kenya. Sarah and Phil have recently returned to the UK to progress fundraising for Open Hearts and Minds (OHAM).
Phil Boyer was born in Ohio, USA. He worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK for 14 years. A desire to contribute more directly led him to volunteer activities in Ecuador and Tanzania. Phil spent two years working in Kenya at a company involved in extracted anti-malarial ingredients which are used throughout the world.
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.
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.
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.
