Carolina for Kibera is Changing the Game: bringing youth from the battle field to the soccer field in Kibera, Kenya
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By participating in a grassroots soccer program, youth in the Kibera slum learn ethnic and religious cooperation and other leadership and lifeskills.
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Soccer
Year the initative began (yyyy)
2001
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Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram:
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Few effective tools for personal improvement
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Social cohesion
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic:
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Name Your Project
Carolina for Kibera is Changing the Game: bringing youth from the battle field to the soccer field in Kibera, Kenya
Describe Your Idea
By participating in a grassroots soccer program, youth in the Kibera slum learn ethnic and religious cooperation and other leadership and lifeskills.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
By participating in a grassroots soccer program, youth in the Kibera slum learn ethnic and religious cooperation and other leadership and lifeskills.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?
Carolina for Kibera's grassroots participatory model is innovative because it utilizes Kibera’s characteristic diversity and large youth population as tools for combating ethnic and religious-based violence. CFK promotes cooperation and comradery between youth of different ethnic groups in Kibera through organized soccer competition and community service activities. Ultimately, the model takes the same factors that traditionally cause violence in Kibera (a large, diverse, largely unemployed youth population) and puts them on a different playing field. By changing how and what game the youth play, CFK leads a new approach to ethnic cooperation and community development. CFK’s unique approach is holistic. While focused on promoting ethnic and religious cooperation, CFK takes advantage of the opportunity to also foster youth leadership, gender inclusion, and HIV/AIDS awareness through off-the-field skills trainings, peer education and outreach, and an all-girls soccer tournament.
What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change?
Many of the world’s most challenging disputes stem from local ethnic or religious conflict. In the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya – East Africa’s largest slum - a violent history of ethnic violence is exacerbated by poverty, overpopulation, and unemployment. What is more, youth aged 15 to 30 are the main combatants when Kibera’s six different ethnic and religious groups clash. CFK’s sports program curbs ethno-religious tension by engaging and investing in youth who might otherwise be fighting.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
The thousands of boys and girls that play in CFK soccer tournaments in Kibera must practice and compete on ethnically diverse teams. Tournaments are four to six months long and may include hundreds of matches leading up to the championship games. Team coaches and game referees are older youth volunteers from Kibera who serve as role models for the players. Coaches and referees enforce the CFK Fair Play Code, governing player behavior on and off the field.
CFK is rooted in the conviction that everything must be earned because nothing in life is free. CFK players, in exchange for the opportunity to play soccer, must also participate in community service projects. Teams with high rates of community service participation earn extra points and advance higher in tournament rankings.
Off the field, CFK offers skills trainings that increase employment opportunities for players. Also, CFK utilizes peer education methodology to encourage players to make educated health-related decisions.
How do you plan to grow your innovation?
CFK already serves as a model for other community-based organizations in difficult, disenfranchised, and often dangerous places worldwide. For example, CFK Youth Sports Program Officer Abdul “Cantar” Hussein traveled to the Gambia in 2007 to advise a nascent organization interested in applying CFK’s sports model to its own program. Cantar trained his colleagues on mobilization skills, community involvement, operational structure, coaching, tournament organization, and gender equality. CFK plans to continue its work as a model by developing best practices in the field in order to share knowledge, challenges, and successes on a larger scale. CFK also seeks to expand its presence by involving youth in the United States in awareness campaigns, fundraising, and soccer equipment drives. After a recent cover article featuring CFK in TIME for Kids magazine, CFK has worked with youth soccer teams, Girl Scout troops, and classrooms in the US to raise awareness and support their peers in Kibera.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.
By providing opportunties to youth for personal development and positive interaction with youth of other religions and ethnicities, we can prevent youth participation in violence.
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries?
Sources estimate Kibera’s population to be between 700,000 and 1 million residents. In each case of collective violence in Kibera, the combatants were predominately unemployed youth aged 16 to 30. CFK offers a venue where youth in Kibera develop critical team-building, cooperative, and leadership skills, which are necessary for developing a socially-minded and cohesive youth population, as well as lowering the incidence of violence. Because Kibera youth are responsible for programmatic decision-making, the organizational structure creates stakeholders and role models in the community and provides youth with an opportunity to excel at sports as an alternative to violence. CFK gives these unemployed youth, as well as their young brothers and sisters, opportunities to develop life skills for individual success, as well as community betterment. Over the long-term, CFK supports emerging leaders who will one day become effective agents for change in Kibera, Africa, and indeed, the world.
How many people have you served directly?
Membership in CFK’s youth sports program grew by over 25% since 2003. Carolina for Kibera has reached over 5000 boys and girls in Kibera through its soccer tournaments. community service projects, HIV/AIDS peer education program, and skills-trainings since its inception in 2001. In November 2007, 3000 youth will participate in the CFK tournament, including 1600 youth under the age of twelve.
Participation in CFK-sponsored community clean-ups and other service projects is consistently between 500 and 700 youth. The clean-ups are held, on average, twice a month in one of Kibera’s eleven villages. Kibera residents (over 100,000 in some villages) benefit directly from having CFK players and other volunteers literally use rakes, shovels, and wheelbarrows to remove trash and solid waste from the community that would otherwise clog man-made ditches and contaminate water sources.
How many people have you served indirectly?
Indirectly, Carolina for Kibera serves, or has the potential to serve, the entire Kibera community of nearly 1 million people. CFK has expanded its reach greatly through word-of-mouth within Kibera. This mainly occurs when family and friends of young CFK soccer players have the opportunity to learn from the players and become involved in future tournaments and community clean-ups. CFK players can also teach their peers not participating in CFK about leadership, HIV/AIDS, and ethnic cooperation.
Additionally, by engaging youth in Kibera in sport, community service and leadership development, Carolina for Kibera serves the entire community of Kibera by reducing the potential for religious and ethnic violence in the slum. Consequently, not only do CFK’s activities improve the lives of the youth players, but also do the lives of Kibera residents improve generally.
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation?
31 youth trained in computer literacy skills; participation in community service projects is consistently between 500-700 players; CFK is 1 of 7 programs worldwide identified as an example “of innovation and…effective work” in HIV Prevention with Especially Vulnerable Young People (Univ. of London); only grassroots organization invited to participate in 2006 Brookings-Blum Roundtable on “Poverty and Insecurity” at the Aspen Institute; over 2,000 tons of trash cleared from Kibera by CFK in 2006.
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?
Demand within Kibera for CFK’s soccer and youth leadership programs is growing precipitously and often surpasses the human and material resources available at any given moment. In order to achieve the target impact, CFK must keep financial growth paced with programmatic demand, and maintain an office staff that can also accommodate the growth. CFK staff and volunteers work extraordinarily hard and are motivated by passion and belief in the CFK sports and youth leadership model.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
CFK is funded by diverse group of private foundations, charitable corporations and individual donors. After a $30,000 start-up grant in 2001, the Ford Foundation’s support grew to a multi-year grant of $120,000 through 2008. Other supporters include American Jewish World Service, Omidyar Foundation, William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, and Robertson Foundation. CFK is establishing an endowment fund that is managed by the University of North Carolina (UNC). Sports equipment is donated by the U.S. Soccer Foundation’s Passback program (administered by Sports Endeavors in Hillsborough, NC), as well as Nike and Adidas. Institutional support, including office space and fundraising resources, is provided by UNC’s Center for Global Initiatives.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization.
2007 Annual Budget for CFK Youth Sports Program: $60,000
2007 Total Annual Budget for Carolina for Kibera (all programs): $250,000
2006 Annual Revenue for all Carolina for Kibera Programs: $333,317 (including restricted, unrestricted, and interest income)
CFK Youth Sports Program Staff
Full-Time: 1 (Youth Sports Program Officer)
Part-Time: 0
Volunteer: 250+ (coaches and referees)
Carolina for Kibera (CFK) Staff (all programs)
Full-Time: 22
Part-Time: 1
Volunteer: 300+
What is the potential demand for your innovation?
The demand for CFK’s innovative model is both local and global. CFK has the potential to become the go-to sports program for nearly half a million young people in Kibera. CFK works with local organizations to strengthen their sports programs in other marginalized communities. Globally, the demand for CFK’s model is already emerging. CFK receives several inquiries monthly from community-based organizations worldwide interested in implementing the CFK grassroots sports and youth leadership model.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?
Donor fatigue is perhaps the largest barrier to financial sustainability for CFK, although we are constantly searching for and implementing new ways to engage with our supporters. Also, because the focus in Kibera is programming and efforts in the U.S. are almost exclusively all-volunteer, CFK simply lacks the person-hours to invest in development and marketing that larger non-profits enjoy. We believe that an endowment will improve financial sustainability and programmatic flexibility.
The Story
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
While an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, Rye Barcott lived in Kibera and studied youth involvement in ethnic and religious conflict as a Burch Fellow in 2001. During his studies, Barcott met Salim Mohamed, who was head of the Information and Management Department of the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) in another Nairobi slum. Through conversations about Barcott’s studies in Kibera and Mohamed’s work in Mathare, the two decided they could adapt the MYSA model to Kibera. Effectively, Barcott and Mohamed created a holistic sports model unique to Carolina for Kibera geared towards ethnic and religious cooperation. Barcott and Mohamed also reunited with the late Tabitha Festo, who had established CFK’s second program, the Tabitha Medical Clinic, with a $26 grant from Barcott. CFK received initial funding in the form of a $30,000 start-up grant from the Ford Foundation. A year later, two undergraduates from the US, Karen Austrian and Emily Verellen, helped young women in Kibera create The Binti Pamoja (Daughters United) Center, establishing a safe space for young girls to address issues unique to them. Youth in Kibera subsequently developed the Taka ni Pato (Trash is Cash) program in 2005 in order to address the dual problems of unemployment and solid waste management. Each program is led by residents of Kibera, keeping in step with CFK’s belief that solutions to challenges involving poverty are possible only if those affected by it drive development.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material.
Rye Barcott graduated with a B.A. in Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina. Rye served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and is currently pursuing a joint degree from Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government.
Salim Mohamed grew up in a Kenyan children’s home and got his start in sports development with the Mathare Youth Sports Association. Salim was a 2007 TED Global Conference Fellow and presenter at the International AIDS Conference in Thailand.
How did you hear about this contest and what is your main incentive to participate? (this is confidential)
Carolina for Kibera learned about this contest through initial research on the internet, and then we were directed to the pre-registration by a friend familiar with Ashoka. Later, we were encouraged to apply by employees of GlobalGiving, Ashoka, Nike and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who are familiar with our work in Kibera and with the Changemakers competition. CFK chose to enter this contest not only because we feel our model for using sport to promote ethno-religious cooperation is innovative, but also because we are interested in learning more about our fellow entrants doing work in the field and hope to receive constructive criticism relating to our work that will facilitate growth and programmatic improvement.
Affiliation (please list all that apply)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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My name is Bri O'Donnell and in the past year I have been privileged to work in the Kibera slum twice. Although I have not worked directly with CFK during my time in Kibera, I have seen the positive affects in which the organization has had on the community. This sports program for young children from the slum is a great opportunity for these kids to branch out of their current situation to work on team chemistry which focuses on alleviating ethnic/religious tensions and in turn provides them with leadership and life skills. Kibera, despite being one of the world's largest slums, is full of energy and life. The people of Kibera however must be taught how to work together to solve common problems, and it is fabulous that this program is geared at the youth looking to provide them with the skills in which they would need to be more effective leaders and followers. Many of the children at the orphanage I work in know what CFK is and they know very well of the soccer teams. They look up to these kids who are lucky to be on the CFK teams. This just goes to show how much of an impact CFK has already had since its creation.
Great idea to have teams with high rates of community service participation earn extra points and advance higher in tournament rankings!
Congratulations to Rye and Salim for conceiving and then growing this project. It strikes me that you've accomplished much good along the way.
A question: When scheduling CFK tournaments in Kiberia, are you mindful of different religious holy days, appropriate starting times during the day, and community religious ceremonies that may be occurring among the six religious and ethnic groups so that the logistics of playing don't become barriers and obstacles to greater understanding among the groups? I suspect that this isn't all that easy for you.
Steve Byars
Dear Steve,
Many thanks for your encouragement of our work and for your thoughtful comment and question. CFK does, in fact, try to schedule its practices and tournaments with important holidays in mind. The Youth Sports Program Officer, Abdul "Cantar" Hussein, is Muslim and other key organizers of the tournaments represent each of the other ethnic groups in Kibera. CFK leadership works together when planning tournaments and other events and always strives to schedule for the most mutually convenient time for everyone or the majority of participants. In the event that one group is unable to participate in a scheduled clean-up, they know that they will always be able to make up that service during the next project. Essentially, CFK is about understanding and cooperation to make the most of each soccer tournament and community service project, even if not everyone can participate in every event.
Emily Pierce
CFK, Inc. Vice President
Hi Emily,
Given your connections to UNC, I would be interested to know how you have leveraged the relationship with the university to support your organization. We have found that students are eager to become engaged around social issues and can be an incredible network for telling your story and subsequently raising funds - the "barak obama" way, i.e. lots of small donors. I have also wondered whether scholarships to colleges such as Carolina might further enhance the "carrot" that organizations like yours have to offer for members to work hard for self improvement and engagement in CfK. I would be curious to know if you have explored these channels and if so, what came of your efforts?
Best of luck,
Ziba
Dear Ziba,
CFK has been able to leverage its relationship with UNC in many important ways. First, we are working to involve the motivated undergraduate students at UNC this year by first focusing on the UNC Senior Class of 2008. Each year, the senior class president and the class marshals organize the Senior Campaign for Carolina, which replaced the senior class gift a couple years ago. Instead of purchasing a physical gift on campus, seniors can choose the academic, athletic, or other program to which they would like to donate their personal gift to the University. This year, the senior class chose Carolina for Kibera as the senior class' endorsed fund. While seniors may still choose where they would like to donate their money, the senior class leadership is encouraging seniors to give to Carolina for Kibera through awareness events, speakers, and other senior class activities. The exposure we are generating on campus via the senior class is incredible, we have recruited new campus volunteers from the underclassmen ranks, and we expect a very competitive selection process for our summer volunteers. This campaign will be similar to the Obama Model, in that seniors are encouraged to give a modest gift of $20.08 (to reflect their graduation year) each, which will add up with higher participation.
Secondly, we believe that CFK is an important componant of the University's and Chancellor's mission to go global, and we're very excited to have moved into our new home at the FedEx Global Education Center, which was just dedicated on Oct 12. We are supporting UNC students who want to have experiential learning experiences abroad through the James and Florence Peacock Fellows program. Each year, CFK selects two UNC students to receive a Peacock Fellowship, which covers their airfare and living expenses associated with volunteering in Kibera. Students are really interested in creating a partnership between the youth in Kibera and the young men and women at UNC, and that partnership grows stronger every summer through the volunteer program. When the volunteers return to campus the next year, they spend the year exploring new ways for the University and CFK to collaborate, raise awareness about urban poverty issues, and fundraise.
Finally, CFK is leveraging its institutional support at UNC by establishing an endowment fund to be administered and managed by the University's investment group, UNC Management LLC. The interest generated from the fund will be sent to Kibera and cover a majority of our core operating expenses, as well as allow our program budget to expand over time. Because donations to the endowment fund are counted as donations to the University, we have enlisted the support of UNC Development Office to reach out to the broad UNC alumni base in our fundraising efforts. The fund is going to afford us greater financial sustainability, as well as necessary programmatic flexibility, and we are very fortunate to have the University's support in this quest.
CFK has experimented in the past with offering a scholarship to UNC to a highly-motivated and involved youth with CFK. Unfortunately, that "beta test" was ultimately not successful. We may experiment with this model again in the future once our relationship with UNC has additional time to develop and grow, but for now we are focused on getting the greatest amount of resources to the greatest number of youth in Kibera, giving them an opportunity for to live in a violence-free enviorment and to develop as a community. When I volunteered on the ground in Kibera as an undergraduate student in 2002, CFK leadership in Kenya taught me that communicating clearly with the community about what CFK can and cannot do is fundamental to our sustainability and curbs unrealistic expectations. CFK does not want to create an unrealistic expectation that each child in Kibera be able to attend a university in the United States. What can be realistically expected is that each child in Kibera will have an opportunity to play soccer and develop leadership and other life skills through Carolina for Kibera that will help them succeed in Kibera, in Nairobi, in Africa and beyond.
Thanks again,
Emily
Hi Emily,
$20.08 - I love it - what a brilliant idea. As I think you know, through mechanisms like global giving, I have been looking at a lot of models of engaging "individual donors" as a way of expanding the pie of funds out there for social entrepreneurs using sport for social development. The first step is to get projects up on these sites and the next step is to figure out effective ways of driving traffic....which is what we will be doing next. People keep telling me that young people dont give which would make it tough to leverage our marketing campaigns (which obviously target young people) to enlist potential donors to this movement. I would love to know more about your learnings in this realm because I think there is a model here to be found - maybe team-to-team connections, sort of like "sister cities"? How can the private sector reinforce efforts like the one you have going with college grads to create a more sustainable donor base for great grassroots programs like yours?
On another level (see...your response was so thorough that you have me going on and on...) I am interested to know more about whether you see the foreign volunteer as equally beneficial to the host community as it is to the foreigners. Do you rely on foreign volunteers to staff your program or is it more of a cultural exchange program?
Thanks so much and keep up the great work!
Ziba
Hi Ziba,
I would have to disagree with all those folks telling you that young people do not want to give. However, you still have to -- just as with any other donor population -- make it personal and relevant to their life. I think targeting young people that play the same sport is critical. For example, we've worked with the UNC Varsity Women's Soccer team; one year, a player traveled to Kibera and put on a soccer clinic for our girls teams and last year the entire team sponsored a clinic for girls in Chapel Hill just days after they won the national championship. Also, after a March 2007 cover article in TIME for Kids magazine ran, we received an outpouring of support from elementary, middle, and high school children across the country. I don't think we could have outfitted our annual soccer tournament in Kibera (with more than 200 teams) without the donations we received over the past few months from these young people.
I love your idea of team-to-team connections. Making it easy for the sports teams of an entire high school or university (soccer, cross-country/track, basketball, football, etc.) to sponsor teams and be leaders of the awareness in their school could be one model. I *heart* GlobalGiving and think that they should be a part of the movement model in some capacity -- perhaps more on the university level. Universities could have their unique pages on the site, and Nike Sport for a Better World student/campus leaders (probably athletes) could have laptops set up in common areas on campus (at UNC it is called "The Pit") and encourage students to find a project and make a small donation in between classes, on their way to lunch, or returning home from the library. The projects on a particular university's GlobalGiving page could be just the projects that teams at that University have been paired up with through Nike. There's a difference between telling a University student "Oh hey, when you go back to your dorm room, check out this website and pick a project..." and saying "Hey, check out GlobalGiving [right now]! These are the projects that athletes at UNC/wherever are working with across the globe through Nike and we'd like you to make a donation of $10/$5/$20 [right now]." GlobalGiving makes it so easy, and at schools where athletes are already major campus leaders (and in the case of Carolina basketball and women's soccer, celebrities), the attractiveness of stopping to make a gift or get involved is pretty high. Coordinate with athletic departments to get everyone on board.
Also, I think there is a movement among public and private school curricula to integrate service and philanthropy, to teach children "how to give," and some even focus on introducing young people to being "global citizens" at a younger age. We've been able to work with schools in the local areas where CFK volunteers live in the U.S. (Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC; Washington, DC, etc.) that are integrating these ideas school-wide. Getting schools or church youth groups or other service-oriented groups (Key Clubs, National Honor Society, etc.) on board is certainly one approach, and working within these structures that already exist has its benefits.
Okay, and now my piece of unsolicited advice: Please don't do the color wristband thing in your marketing/awareness. Do t-shirts, visors, sport bottles, sweat bands ... temporary tattoos! Anything but wristbands.
On the student volunteer issue: as an undergraduate volunteer in 2002, I'm not sure that I can say that the benefits are "equal" for both (I think it affected my life more than I made any real change on the ground in Kibera), but I do not think that sending student volunteers has a net negative impact in Kibera. I think this is true because CFK is very collaborative and deliberate in selecting volunteers, as well as limiting. What I mean by this is that our volunteer selection process is always in coordination with our Exec Dir, Deputy Dir and Clinic Manager on the ground in Kibera. We send them resumes, notes from interviews, application essays, and they send us feedback re: who they think is qualified and has the skills/background to "add-value" to the programming where the volunteers are most needed. No one knows the needs of the projects better than our leadership who live it every day. Some years, they need students with backgrounds in working with adolescent girls, or with soccer experience, other times they need a student who could do a study on nutrition (aka, a graduate student in public health). We have especially high reqs for volunteers with the medical clinic (students must be in medical school or be a registered nurse).
We try -- to the extent that we can -- to always send students who have skills or experience that can be directly applied to projects and initiatives that are already on-going. We avoid sending students that exclusively have a personal agenda, although we have accommodated students who, while also fulfilling their volunteer duties in Kibera, want to do research or a side project (so long as our staff are interested).
Finally, and we have found this to be so, so, SO critical to the success of our volunteer program (from the perspective of our staff in Kibera), we limit the number of volunteers sent each summer. Kibera is a unique environment, and the more students we sent in one summer, the more attention CFK got in the community. Unfortunately, this exposure also led to very high expectations for what CFK could provide (mostly financially), which ultimately led to a safety concern for CFK Kenyan staff and foreign volunteers. Limiting the number of volunteers in Kibera with CFK at any one time (between 2 and 4), improves security for those volunteers, future volunteers, and staff. It also relieves pressure off of our staff from having to "find stuff for the volunteers to do." As any corporation knows, sometimes having an intern is more work than it's worth, and that is certainly true for a nonprofit organization with much fewer resources to spare. The more we coordinate with our staff in selecting the volunteers, and the fewer volunteers we actually select, the greater impact these volunteers have on the ground, making it a better experience for both sides.
Thanks for all your great questions (am I getting a consulting fee from Nike?? Just joking, of course!).
Pamoja,
Emily
Emily Reynolds Pierce
Vice President
Carolina for Kibera, Inc.
www.carolinaforkibera.org
ep@unc.edu
Sounds good, be encouraged. Would like to discuss more, especially about funding sustainability. Thanks, lady a.
Dear Lady A,
Many thanks for your encouragement and comment. CFK is very concerned about financial sustainability, and consequently, (1) has adopted a volunteer-based model in the U.S. and (2) is pursuing an endowment fund strategy in partnership with UNC. CFK-Kenya's patron organization, CFK, Inc., is made up of a nearly all-volunteer staff. This volunteer-based model ensured that, over the past five years, 82% of our funds actually reached the ground in Kibera, relieving some of the financial sustainability pressure that other nonprofits with high overhead costs experience.
That said, CFK still recognizes that importance of and need for a consistent source of funding for CFK-Kenya, and is on a quest to establish an endowment fund. Interest off of the endowment, once established, will cover a majority of our core operating expenses, and with time, will allow the leaders in Kibera to grow CFK's program budget. The fund will be administered and managed by UNC Management LLC. We hope that this strategy will afford not only financial sustainability, but also programmatic flexibility in Kibera. As with many developing, urban communities, environmental and social factors that affect CFK's work change constantly. With a consistent source of funding, the young Kenyan men and women managing CFK programs in Kibera will be able to react to their changing environment and allow CFK to evolve over time. With the support of the Schmidt Family Foundation, the Omidyar Family Foundation, and hundreds of other individual private donations, CFK has reached $1.1M of its $4M endowment goal.
Emily Pierce
Vice President, CFK Inc.