Karabati Community Services
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About Karabati Community Services
A weekly feeding program for seven children grew into the Joann Tyson Children’s Home, which now provides shelter, food, clothing, schooling, medical support, and life-skills training for orphaned and vulnerable children. Karabati Community Services also supports widows through a center and plans to convert a former boarding school into housing. Your gift supports care that reaches beyond a bed and a meal, helping children learn and helping communities address broader needs.
Karabati Community Services supports children in residential care while also serving widows in Kisii County, Kenya. Its community awareness program works with local communities around the orphanage, school, and widows’ centers, so the organization’s work extends into the places where those services operate.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Joann Tyson Children's Home
Provides shelter, food, clothing, schooling, medical care, and a loving Christian environment for orphaned, rejected, neglected, or ignored children in Kisii County, Kenya.
Orphanage education and life-skills support
Covers educational costs including tuition, testing, lunch programs, uniforms, boarding, and schooling. Children also learn to cook, wash clothes, and maintain the orphanage grounds.
Widows' Center
Provides support through a widows' center in Kisii County, Kenya, and a project to convert a former boarding school into housing for widows.
Community awareness program
Partners with communities where the orphanage, school, and widows' centers are located to address broader community needs and build community cohesion.
Adopt-a-Unit Campaign
Allows individuals, churches, and organizations to sponsor housing units for widows or dormitory beds and living spaces for children.
About this work
Mission
Karabati Community Services focuses on giving the maximum positive effort for its community. Its members and volunteers work to provide the best life possible for the people it serves, including people in impoverished situations.
Who they serve
Orphaned and vulnerable children, widows, and people living in impoverished situations in Kenya, particularly in Kisii County and the surrounding region.
Their impact
- The organization began a weekly feeding program for 7 orphans rescued from the streets of Kisii and Keroka.
- By February 2011, the feeding program had grown to 16 orphans who began staying at a church hall.
- The orphanage grew to 28 children before the organization developed additional housing arrangements.
- In early 2022, the orphanage increased to 42 children.
- Living Word Worship Center funded a girls' dormitory in 2017, a boys' dormitory, storeroom, and office in 2018, and a kitchen and dining room in 2020.
- In 2022, Living Word Worship Center purchased a van for the orphanage to support transportation for the children.
How your donation helps
- Renovating and furnishing housing units for widows
- Constructing dormitory spaces for children
- Providing rent, food, and clothing for children
- Covering tuition, testing, lunch programs, uniforms, boarding, and other educational costs
- Supporting medical needs
- Paying orphanage staff salaries
- Providing firewood for cooking
- Funding utilities and security for housing units
- Providing clean water
- Purchasing child-care essentials
- Supporting renovation and related infrastructure
Need help?
How someone in need can access Karabati Community Services’s services.
Children may be referred to the organization by a grandmother or other relative seeking help due to limited resources, or may be brought directly to the Joan Tyson orphanage. The organization provides shelter, food, clothing, schooling, medical support, and a Christian environment for children in its care.
Stories
The people behind the work.
In their words
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted."
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Karabati Community Services has shared.
Current needs
- $500,000 for the Adopt-A-Unit Campaign
- Renovation and furnishing of housing for 50 widows
- Dormitory space for 116 children under the organization's care
- Utilities and security for housing units
- Clean water
- Child-care essentials
- Ongoing monthly support for orphanage operations, staffing, education, food, clothing, and medical needs
Volunteer opportunities
- Contact the organization to learn about volunteer opportunities.
- Help with fundraising events.
- Share the organization's message with others.
- Churches and organizations can participate in the Adopt-a-Unit Campaign.
Partners & funders
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
What does the Joann Tyson Children's Home provide for children?
The home provides shelter, food, clothing, schooling, medical support, and a loving Christian environment. Children also learn practical skills such as cooking, washing clothes, and caring for the orphanage grounds.
How do children come to the orphanage?
Some children are referred by a grandmother or another relative who is seeking help because of limited resources. Others are brought to the orphanage after being left at its gate.
How does the organization support children's education?
For children in Standard school, equivalent to U.S. grades 1 through 8, the organization covers tuition, testing, lunch programs, uniforms, and related educational costs. Students who continue to Form school, equivalent to U.S. high school, receive support for boarding and education costs.
What is the Adopt-a-Unit Campaign?
The campaign lets individuals, churches, and organizations sponsor housing units for widows or dormitory beds and living spaces for children as part of the planned conversion of a former boarding school in Kenya.
What is the community awareness program?
The program partners with communities where the orphanage, school, and widows’ centers are located. Together, they address broader community needs and build community cohesion.
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