Sponsor a child
We would be happy if you would like to sponsor a child in Rabai, Kenya. With your sponsorship, you make it possible for your sponsored child to attend school. You can read more about the school on our About Us page. On this page here you can find children who are still looking for sponsors. These children attend either the Hope Rabai Preparatory School or a primary school and would be happy to find a sponsor.
If the child attends Hope Rabai Preparatory School, he/she will transfer to a public primary school after two or three years. You are welcome to continue supporting the child, the sponsorship fee remains the same. You can find out more about the school system and what happens after primary school on the About Us page.
The sponsorship for a child is 20 Euros per month, a shared sponsorship of 10 Euros per month is also possible. You can choose a child to sponsor or we can suggest a child to you. All the children we present here urgently need the support of sponsors.
If you are able to do so, we would very much appreciate if you added 5 to 15 Euro for the school feeding program onto your sponsorship for the first years, while your sponsored child is attending our school. The full feeding program is 17 Euro per child, but we also have a small number of porridge and lunch sponsors. The children receive a warm porridge and a healthy lunch plus fruit every day, and a boiled egg twice per week.
We are happy to provide you with a donation receipt, donations to kila mtoto e.V. are tax deductable in Germany and most European countries. Please consult your tax office in case of questions.
Only when all the children have sponsors can we operate the school at full capacity - with lessons, good materials and some basic medical coverage.
The school meals are partly financed by the sponsorships for the children at our school. However, this is not enough to provide a balanced diet. With a porridge sponsorship, an egg or fruit sponsorship or a lunch sponsorship, you make it possible for us to offer healthy and filling meals to all the children at the school.
If your sponsored child attends a primary school, the sponsorship contribution will be used to cover the costs of your sponsored child's school attendance. A part of your sponsorship contribution also goes towards the overall project to cover the general care of your sponsored child and their family. In addition we support the schools that our children attend with donations like books, so that your sponsored child as well as other children are benefitting.
Abdhi will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Charity will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
Charity is four years old and lives with her mother, her siblings and her grandmother in her grandparents’ house. Since her parents’ divorce, her mother has been looking after the children on her own. Charity has three siblings: her sister Esterh is already part of our programme. The youngest sibling is still too young for school. Her mother has no permanent job and relies on occasional work. When she cannot find work, her brother supports the family with food and clothing. There is no regular income. The family lives in a hut which is in poor condition and poorly ventilated. There is no electricity. They cook using firewood. Sleeping arrangements are also basic: Charity shares her bed with her grandmother. They sleep on a mat made of palm leaves and sacks. The old and torn mosquito net offers only inadequate protection. The family’s resources are usually only enough for about two meals a day. Water has to be bought from a water vendor, which further increases their daily expenses. By becoming a sponsor, you can enable Charity to attend school.
Ibrahim will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Husna will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Abdimalik will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
Abdimalik is four years old and lives with his parents and five siblings. The family consists of eight people in total. Four of his siblings are already attending school; one younger sibling is not yet of school age. Abdimalik himself has not yet attended school. His father is about 34 years old; he had to leave school due to a lack of money and works at a slaughterhouse. His income is meagre and has to stretch to support the large family. His mother is a housewife and looks after the home and the children. The family lives in a single rented room, which is very small for eight people. The room is poorly ventilated and offers hardly any privacy. They cook outside the room in the corridor using a simple charcoal stove. Sleeping arrangements are also cramped. Abdimalik shares a small, old mattress on the floor with his siblings. The family has to buy drinking and household water in jerrycans from a water vendor. Their money usually only stretches to about two meals a day. By becoming a sponsor, you can enable Abdimalik to attend our pre-school and support his family with the costs of his schooling.
Faiza will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
Faiza lives with her parents and two older sisters. Her father recently lost his job. Since then, the family has had no regular income and is finding it very difficult to cover their basic expenses, even though they are doing everything they possibly can. The family lives in a simple, two-room hut that is in poor condition. The roof leaks, the walls and floor are cracked, and the doors offer little protection. There is no electricity. The family has to buy drinking water at great expense; for other purposes, they fetch water from a nearby water point. Their food supply is also uncertain. They usually have only two meals a day, with dinner being the most important meal. Leftover food is often eaten the following morning. Faiza shares an old mattress with her two sisters. As a result, the three girls have very cramped sleeping arrangements. For Faiza, a sponsorship would mean one thing above all else: the opportunity to gain access to education despite her family’s difficult financial situation.
Adhinan will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Habiba will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
Habiba is almost four years old and lives with her family in a simple hut. Four of her siblings are already attending school, and the family now urgently needs help for Habiba. Her father works as a bricklayer. As he can only find seasonal work, his income is irregular. Her mother is a housewife. Both parents left school after Year 8. The family is struggling to cover the costs of their children’s schooling. Time and again, the children are sent home because of outstanding school fees. The three-room house has mud walls and a corrugated iron roof. There is no electricity. The rooms are inadequately ventilated. Cooking takes place in a small separate kitchen on a simple hearth made of three stones and firewood. Sleeping arrangements are also basic. Habiba shares a bed with her family; the mattress is smaller than the sleeping area. An old mosquito net offers additional, but only limited, protection. The family’s available resources are usually only enough for about two meals a day. Water has to be bought from a local water vendor, which further increases their daily expenses. Precisely because even the older children are repeatedly forced to stay at home due to a lack of school fees, a sponsorship for the family provides vital relief.
Lukman will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Leila will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Ismail will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Yasmin will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Joseph will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Maya will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Islam will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Munira will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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James will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
James is growing up in extreme poverty with his five siblings. His father works as a day labourer, earning an irregular and barely sufficient income for the family of eight. Often, the money is only enough for one simple meal a day. The family is frequently unable to cover the costs of school, school uniforms and other essentials. As a result, the children are repeatedly sent home. One brother has already had to drop out of school; for another brother, we have covered the school fees so that he can at least complete Year 9. The family lives in a small, unfinished mud hut, where they sleep on old sacks on the floor.
Swalha will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Sumeiya will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Yasir will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Zuena will attend our PP 1 class from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Abdhul will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
Abdhul is three years old and lives with his parents and four siblings. He is due to start at our school next year. At home, he enjoys playing football. His father had to give up his job following an accident in April, as both his legs were broken. Before that, he earned a living for the family as a day labourer at a local factory. Since the accident, he has been unable to work for the time being. His mother sells vegetables to earn some money for the family. However, her income is barely enough to cover the basic needs of all family members. The family lives in a simple house with three bedrooms, mud walls and a corrugated iron roof. They cook with firewood inside the house, which is inadequately ventilated. The family owns a small plot of land on which they grow vegetables during the rainy season. Even so, there is often barely enough food for two meals a day. They also have to buy drinking water from a water vendor. Abdhul sleeps on the floor with his older brother on a small, damaged mattress. There is no bed or mosquito net. It is particularly difficult for the mother to afford the school fees for the older children. Sometimes they have to stay at home because there is not enough money for them to attend school.
Moses will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
The father works as a day labourer on building sites. His income is barely enough to meet the family’s needs. The mother can neither read nor write. She looks after the children at home and, due to her lack of schooling, finds it very difficult to find paid work. The father already has three children from his first marriage, who were living with him before he remarried and Moses’s mother joined the family. The family lives in a simple hut with mud walls and a damaged roof made of old corrugated iron sheets and other materials. When it rains, water seeps into the house. There is only one bedroom, no concrete floor and no electric lighting. Cooking is done using firewood in poorly ventilated rooms. The family can usually only afford two meals a day; sometimes there is nothing at all to eat. They buy drinking water from a water vendor; when the supply is unreliable, water for other purposes is fetched from a water reservoir. The family does not have their own toilet and uses their neighbours’. Sleeping arrangements are also very basic: Moses shares his sleeping space with his parents. The family sleeps on the floor on old sacks, without a bed or mattress; there is no mosquito net. Some of the older children had to wait for quite some time before they could start school because there was no money for school fees. They cannot always afford writing materials either.
Fahadh will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
Fahad has three older sisters. He enjoys playing with toy cars he has made himself and loves to sing. His father works as a cobbler and repairs shoes for people in the local area. As he does not have customers every day, his income is irregular. His mother looks after the children and the household. She also works occasionally as a seamstress. Both parents had to leave school after Year 7. The family lives in a small hut with mud walls and a roof made of rusty corrugated iron sheets. The building is unstable and offers only limited shelter. The family shares a toilet with the neighbours. They often barely have enough money for food. Sometimes the family has to go a whole day without food. They buy drinking water from a water vendor; if the supply fails, they have to fetch water from a waterhole. Fahad shares a bed with his parents. The mattress is completely worn out, and the old mosquito net does not provide adequate protection. School fees for the older children are also a major burden. Sometimes they have to stay at home because there is not enough money to send them to school.
Muktar will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Fidel will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
Fidel is three years old and lives with his mother and his three older siblings. Next year, he is due to start nursery at our school. At home, he enjoys playing with homemade toy cars. His father left the family many years ago and takes no part in looking after them. His mother works as a teacher. Despite her job, her income is barely enough to meet the family’s basic needs. The family lives in their maternal uncle’s house. It has mud walls, a corrugated iron roof and an unpaved floor. The rooms are poorly ventilated. The family can usually only afford two meals a day; a balanced diet is not always possible. Nor can the school fees for the older siblings be paid reliably, which is why they occasionally have to stay at home. The family obtains water from a water vendor or, if the supply fails, from a waterhole. They do not have their own toilet and use their neighbours’. Fidel sleeps on the floor with his siblings on badly worn mattresses. The mosquito net they have is also in poor condition.
Bilal will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Hajra will attend our daycare from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Halid will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Hassan will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
Hassan is 3 years old and will be joining the nursery class at our school in January 2027; he needs sponsors to support him with 20 euros a month. Hassan is the fifth of six children. He lives with his parents and siblings and enjoys spending his time at home playing football. He is a rather shy but sweet boy. He particularly likes eating rice and beans. His father only attended school for two years; he works as a day labourer on building sites and tries to provide for the family on his irregular income. His mother looks after the children and the household at home. However, there is often not enough money to support such a large family. The family lives in a simple hut with a mud floor and a corrugated iron roof. They do not always have enough to eat – sometimes the family has to make do with just one meal a day. A small plot of land, on which vegetables are grown during the rainy season, helps to supplement their diet somewhat. Sleeping arrangements are poor. Hassan shares an old, damaged mattress on a metal frame supported by sticks with two of his brothers. There is no mosquito net. We will definitely need to help with this as part of our bed project. School fees are a particular burden. Time and again, the parents are unable to pay the costs for school and school uniforms on time, meaning the older children have to stay at home.
Fahadh will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Rose will attend our daycare from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
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Omar will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Hashim will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Riyadh will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Joseph will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Nadheem will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Twalib will attend our daycare from January 2027. He is looking for sponsors that support him with 20 Euro per month.
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Ruth will attend our daycare from January 2027. She is looking for sponsors that support her with 20 Euro per month.
Ruth is three years old and has three siblings. She lives with her family in a two-bedroom rented house. At home, she likes to play with toys; her favourite foods are chapati and beans. Her father works in a slaughterhouse. He has two children from a previous marriage who live with him. He is paid by the day and is the family’s sole regular breadwinner. However, his earnings are often not enough to provide adequately for the family whilst also covering the costs of school fees and other necessary expenses. The mother left school after Year 4 and looks after the children and the household at home. She has been unable to work since the birth of their child. The family lives in a rented two-room house with stone walls and a corrugated iron roof. Parents and children share the living and sleeping areas. A toilet is shared with the other tenants. They cook using charcoal, and the family has to buy drinking water and water for household use from a water vendor. The situation regarding food is difficult. Usually, there is only enough money for about two meals a day; sometimes there is just one meal or no food at all. The family does not own any land on which they could grow their own food. Sleeping arrangements are also basic. Ruth does not have her own bed or mattress. The family sleeps on a mat on the floor, which Ruth shares with her parents.
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If you can’t see any children above this, all our children currently have sponsors. However, we have a waiting list for sponsors. You are welcome to add your name to this list below, we will then inform you when more children are looking for sponsors and you can consider whether you would like to take on a sponsorship. We would be delighted if you would like to support us in the meantime with a lunch or school sponsorship. You are welcome to convert this into a child sponsorship at a later date.
Lunch sponsorship. If we manage to offer a healthy lunch in addition to breakfast, we know that our children are full and well supplied with nutrients and vitamins.
For 12 euros, we can provide a child with a varied and healthy lunch for a month. This includes healthy ingredients such as rice, beans and vegetables. We also use this money to pay for our cooks and the necessary kitchen utensils.
You are free to choose how much you would like to donate each month as a lunch sponsor.
You will receive a donation certificate from us in recognition. And you know that thanks to your help, a child gets a healthy meal every day.
School sponsorship. Would you like to support Hope Rabai Preparatory School on a regular basis without sponsoring a specific child? That is of course also possible – with a school sponsorship.
With a school sponsorship, your donation is treated like a sponsorship and enables the school to run and maintain. Your donation benefits all the children at the school.
With a personal sponsorship, your child will eventually leave Hope Rabai Preparatory School and transfer to a primary school. With a school sponsorship, you can support our small preschool in Rabai on a permanent basis.
You are welcome to sponsor a school with an amount of your choice. You will receive a donation certificate from us in recognition.