About the campaign

In 2013, Neema started welcoming vulnerable young women and their children and never stopped. Unfortunately, the limitations of our rental facility forced us to turn away many young women each year—women and children experiencing abuse and extreme poverty and who had nowhere else to turn.

Campaign Objectives

Our Securing Her Future campaign will double Neema's impact in the community.

Your giving will:

Double the number of vulnerable young women we can serve

Our three new residences and classrooms enable approximately 60 young women to be welcomed into the program, up from 30 in year prior.

provide students and staff with more optimal facilities

Our three classrooms, our large community room, and our dedicated counseling suites will offer spaces that are more conducive to learning, sharing, and healing.

establish neema as a long-term partner in our local community

Owning our land and buildings brings assurance to the community that Neema is committed to Waitaluk and here to stay.

financial goal

By 2024, our Securing Her Future campaign aims to raise:

$550,000

What role will you play in securing a vulnerable young woman’s future?

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Campaign priorities

Every year, Neema provides a pathway out of desperation and poverty for more than 30 young women and their children—an impact that extends far beyond our campus to our students’ families and communities. But we want to do more. To secure the future of twice as many vulnerable young women, we have an opportunity to build a new, permanent campus for the students and staff at Neema.

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Why a new campus?

Less than 25% of women in rural Kenya who went to school completed high-school, crushing their opportunities for a better future. They live in extreme poverty and frequently become teenage mothers. We’re on a mission to change that and give twice as many vulnerable young women a path out of poverty through skills training, counseling, and discipleship. Our current rented facilities are insufficient, but our new, permanent campus will provide a much improved environment to double the number of women whose lives will be transformed.

In the videos below Neema students and staff members walk you through our current facilities. Hear them describe how a new campus would provide a better environment for them to live, learn, relax, and heal.

Neema’s Classrooms

Neema’s Restroom Facilities

Neema’s Residential Facilities

Neema’s Kitchen

Neema’s Childcare Facilities

Neema’s Counseling Rooms

Neema’s Chapel & Community Room

new campus design

After conducting a needs assessment with our Kenyan staff, we partnered with a team of Villanova University engineering students to sketch a potential campus and estimate costs. In 2023, we completed construction of the new campus! See how it’s being used today:

Neema conducted a needs assessment among the Kenyan staff and partnered with a team of Villanova University engineering students to sketch a potential campus and estimate costs.

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What the new campus will provide

Room for more students, opportunities to teach more skills, dedicated space for our children, and so much more—Neema’s improved facilities will ensure we can continue to accomplish our mission and work toward fulfilling our vision.

Our new campus will:

OFFER MORE VULNERABLE YOUNG WOMEN A SPOT AT NEEMA

The three residences and classrooms will enable approximately 60 young women to be welcomed into the program, up from 30 today.
We will not need to turn away as many women because of a lack of space.

OFFER HER OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN NEW SKILLS

The three new classrooms will provide a more optimal setting to teach more extensive dressmaking and tailoring classes, as well as organize community workshops.
The additional land will allow for the teaching of sustainable farming.

OFFER HER COMFORT OF HEART

Individual counseling offices will allow for private one-on-one counseling.
A large indoor community room will be used for group devotions and chapel services.

OFFER HER PEACE OF MIND

She’ll have reliable access to electricity and clean water every day.
She’ll have a safe place for her child to learn, play, and rest while she is in school.
She’ll eat a healthy diet with fresh vegetables and fruits grown straight from the Neema garden.

ESTABLISH NEEMA AS A LONG-TERM PARTNER IN THE COMMUNITY

Owning our land and buildings brings assurance to the community that Neema is committed to Waitaluk and here to stay.
The large community room will enable us to organize and host events for the community.
Sharing our well water with the surrounding families will give an estimated 500 women and children reliable access to clean water.

Securing Sarah’s Future

When Sarah joined Neema with her baby Emmanuel, she was shy and didn’t interact much with the other students. She had her son in sixth grade after her own mother rejected her, and she had to drop out of school.

But through the counseling she received at Neema, she’s grown in social skills and has become jovial and active in class. She says that she can now see a future, and her lost hope is restored. And when she graduates, she’d love to have her own workshop so she can employ other vulnerable young women like herself.

“I’m so grateful for Neema for taking good care of Sarah and the baby … She’s been instilled with discipline, she reasons, and is proud to be at Neema. When her friends ask her about it, she’s glad to share about the education she’s getting.”

- PETER, SARAH’S UNCLE