Komolion Human Development Fund, Inc.

Komolion Human Development Fund encourages and provides funding for projects in local communities that are designed by community members to enable increased education, health, cooperation, poverty reduction and quality of life for the entire community. We envision a world in which children and adults have opportunities to thrive personally and to make positive contributions to their communities.

Indigenous Leadership
We will support projects with indigenous leadership. We will operate on the principle that community ownership and active participation are more important than efficiency.

Local Cultures
We recognize that all cultures and traditions have value. We encourage and support cultures and traditions which serve the mutual good of all parties. We expect beneficiaries of education/training to return to their communities of origin to contribute to and promote further development.

Honesty and Transparency
We operate with honesty and transparency. We ensure compliance with laws and regulations within the host country.

For more than 10 years, we have been making regular trips to Kenya and partnering with local community partners to ensure that we are targeting our initiatives to the right areas. We have a strong network of committed donors, many of whom have personally visited Kenya and met some of the beneficiaries of our work.

We have brought more than 230 people to Kenya and partnered with more than 10 local community partners. We've had two alternative rite of passage ceremonies that have succeeded in significantly reducing female genital mutilation. We fully support the education of 17 girls as of this year. In 2017, the Baylor University student community raised enough money to buy new desks for Komolion primary school classrooms, repair and paint classrooms, set up hand-washing stations, purchase beehives and chickens for villagers to improve nutrition and provide a source of income, and begin a gardening project with villagers. The labor for these projects was done by the Baylor Men's Choir and village residents. Another group of donors provided shoes for each child in the village. We have also contributed to other community partners to address the needs of disabled children and to help educate children in Kibera, the largest urban slum in Africa.