Join our Rafiki Family
Bring love, hope and healing to children who have found a safe refuge with Rafiki Mwema.
Sponsor a child – Change a life
Sponsor a child with Rafiki Mwema and create brighter futures for some of this world’s most vulnerable children.
Your sponsorship helps provide therapy and trauma-informed care, education, medical treatment and a safe place to live, for children healing from abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Give the gift of safety
Your sponsorship opens a world of opportunities
At Rafiki Mwema, children’s lives are transformed through sponsorship. Many arrive having lived through extreme poverty and profound trauma.
At Doyle Farm, they experience safety and stability, often for the first time: enough nutritious food, a clean bed, access to healthcare, and adults who care for them with consistency and dignity.
Be an everyday angel
What you give when you become a sponsor
Caring Adults
Trauma-informed care by skilled, specially trained key workers
A way out of pain
Therapy to begin healing from complex trauma and learning healthy habits
Loving boundaries
Positive parenting with zero tolerance for corporal punishment
Friendship
Sports, excursions, movie nights and other fun activities
Self worth
Child empowerment by including children (in age-appropriate ways) in decisions that affect them
Safety
A clean, comfortable living environment – running water, electricity, medical care and nutritious meals
Knowledge
Learning vital life skills and education that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives
Community
Ongoing care and connection through the Outreach Program once the child leaves Doyle Farm
Help us help them
The care and protection we provide
Rafiki Mwema exists to provide expert therapeutic care to children who are survivors of abuse, sexual assault and neglect.
Children come to us through the child protection and court system, and it often isn’t safe for them to remain in their home communities while cases are underway.
Kenya’s child protection reforms are also changing how long children can remain in institutional care, meaning many children may be with us for shorter periods of time. Because of this, our focus is on providing intensive, trauma-informed care while children are with us, and strengthening reintegration and follow-up support when they leave.
When the time comes for a child to return to family or move into community-based care, our Outreach Program helps maintain contact to support safety, schooling and wellbeing, right up to age 18.
The reason Rafiki Mwema exists
Why these children need your help
Nearly half of Kenya’s population lives in poverty, which puts children at far greater risk of abuse and exploitation.
Tragically in Kenya, sexual violence is extremely common, with 1 in 3 girls experiencing sexual violence during their childhood. In addition, thousands of children live on the street, having escaped home to join a “street family”.
In Nakuru alone, it’s estimated that around 1500 children live on the street.
Join the Rafiki Family
How sponsorship works at Rafiki Mwema
Your monthly sponsorship gives Rafiki Mwema stable, ongoing support to provide care wherever the need is greatest, as children arrive, heal, and transition back into families and communities.
News from Kenya
Receive regular impact updates
Receive meaningful email updates every two months sharing stories, milestones and outcomes from Doyle Farm and our Outreach Program, without identifying personal details.
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Consistent care
Your donation goes to where it’s needed most
Because children’s stays can be shorter and transitions can happen quickly, your sponsorship supports the whole Rafiki family, ensuring care remains consistent even as individual children exit our program.
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DGR registered charity
Tax receipts for your records
Receive tax-deductible receipts for your sponsorship donations, delivered via our donation platform. (Australian sponsors) For international sponsors wanting tax receipts we offer donations via Global Giving.
Global GivingTogether, we can change their world
Sponsor the children of Rafiki Mwema for AUD$50 a month.
Tax-deductible for Australian donors · DGR registered charity
