Change Africa Foundation has already started its first orphanage home in Kenya.  Based on donated funds and voluntary support, orphan children in Kisumu now have somewhere to take them in, sustain and comfort them, enroll them in formal school and put them on the path to education, training and greater fulfillment of their potential in life.  

Building on her experience as the adoptive mother of four Kisumu orphans, Elizabeth Francis and CAF have built a twenty-room house on the shore of the Lake Victoria, in the Kisumu District, and equipped it as an orphan centre.

The CAF effort focuses on those in the local community affected (and infected) by life-threatening diseases such as HIV/AIDS, as well as the sadly attendant problems of poverty, homelessness, lack of education, exploitation and even sexual abuse.  The CAF organization and its volunteer helpers assist those that need it most to realize their hopes, their ambitions and their potential in life.

CAF’s aim has been to create a well-established dwelling, resource centre and recreational facility to be used by needy children and their families.  The home is a place of refuge and comfort, and a place to exchange and promote ideas on factors affecting people’s lives.

CAF is helping to fund the project, and to create a safer place to learn, by building physical infrastructure -- construction of school facilities, a reading and learning room, kitchens, dormitories, a nursing room for babies, a medical dispensary, and workshops. An early priority was providing food and clean water.