Our Story
Amani Children’s Foundation is a 501c3 organization founded by Chad and Jane Stephens in 2004 to serve children orphaned by AIDS and poverty in Africa. We partner with New Life Homes in Kenya, where more than 2600 children have arrived as fragile infants brought to New Life Home from hospitals and police stations. Most were found left to die in awful situations, but nearly all of them have been adopted by Kenyan families.
There are four New Life Homes for babies across Kenya in Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, and Nyeri. They all have medical units which allow them able to take in the tiniest newborns who would never survive in other children centers.
For the twenty-six children who have not been adopted because they live with special needs, New Life Home has the Amani Home. It has long been a model for the work of inclusion for kids with different intellectual and physical abilities and health challenges. Each of the NLH homes has strict financial accountability, and all are highly respected in Kenya for their high standards of care and loving environments.
Amani is a volunteer-run organization, and our overhead is covered by the Amani Arts program, allowing 100% of your donation to go directly to Kenya. We are committed to connecting people in the US to the hope that is stirring in Kenya and to making a real and immediate difference right now for these vulnerable infants. For more information about the work of New Life Home, go to www.newlifehometrust.org
Mailing address: 525 Hedgewood Pl. Winston-Salem, NC
Email: Jane Stephens at jstephens@amanichildren.org
Text: 336 253 7857