Stichting 4 Life

Foundation 4 Life (F4L)

F4L is a dutch organisation supporting the people in Kibera mainly by providing employment and education to women who have been infected by HIV. F4L believes it is only useful to support a person or a family in all aspects of their life to be really able to improve their lives. Therefore F4L is not only providing employment for the women, but the concept is based on four areas of support: employment, education, foster care and export and sales.

 Employment

The women in our programme are mostly single mothers infected by HIV. We provide employment to these mothers, who in many cases have lost their husbands because of aids. By being employed they will be able to take care of themselves and their children, create a better standard of life for their families and get more self-confidence.

Education

Every mother in the programme is allowed to send two of her children to school at the expense of F4L. Although primary school-education is free in Kenya, the parents are supposed to pay for a lot of school-related issues for the children to be able to attend this free education. F4L is taking over this burden of the parents by financing the uniforms, transportation and schoolmeals for the children in primary schools.

Foster care

The mothers or the families of the children take care of the children in the project.  However when the mother or guardian dies because of AIDS, F4L takes over the first care of these children. We will search for family who can take care of them, so they can grow up in a normal situation. If no family can be found, F4L will take care of the children so they can finish their education.

Export

A large part of the jewellery produced by the women is exported to the Netherlands in several webshops and markets.

Other activities
Next to this programme Foundation 4 Life suppports other activities in Kibera:

• Education about sexually transmitted diseases (i.c.w. AMREF Flying Doctors)

• Food for school project (daily we provide food to 50 schoolchildren)

• Support for Tunza's Children center