Our Vision
To see children in stable homes empowered to lead and uphold Christian values.
Who We Are
We are a community of God’s children dedicated to rescuing children in Kenya from abuse, poverty, child marriage, and female genital mutilation (FGM). We are called to provide shelter to the homeless, family to the orphan, food to the hungry, and healing to the hurt.
What We Believe
We believe we are one family, in His image, created as works of art.
MEET THE TEAM
Dorcus Parit
Dorcus Parit works diligently in the community and with Kenyan government officials to combat childhood abuse and neglect, female genital mutilation (FGM) and childhood marriage. She is part of the weekly life of the children of Hope Beyond both at Lenkai School and the Transitional Centre.
She believes that it starts with ONE to change the world, ONE voice impacts on many lives in the society. Her goal is to ensure that she secures the dignity of the girl child and give her a chance to shine in achieving the best in life!”
John Parit
John Parit is the chairman and a co-founder of Hope Beyond Foundation, and a key leadership figure in the lives of the children at Hope Beyond. He is active in the community as an advocate for children and women’s rights, and is the pastor at Lenkai Christian School.
His vast knowledge and experience in management and leadership position has helped him steer the organization in the right direction. The passion to serve the community is soo immense he keeps giving back in incredible ways.
Samuel Nkitoria
Samuel oversees the development of the Hope Beyond Foundation programs. This includes staff development, project management, create budgets for project costs and program expenditures. implementation and daily management of activities.
His excellence at his field of work has ensured Hope maintains partnerships and relationships with other organizations and security agencies in order to expand resources, raise funding and educate the public about the work of Hope.
Mathew Macharia
Mathew writes and distributes content to promote Hope and its activities. He acts as a liaison between the organization, the public, and the media to ensure that Hope remains top in mind within the community and beyond.
His exceptional writing skills allow him to compose engaging and accurate content for social media and other publications. He works effectively and maintains relationships with journalists while seeking opportunities to enhance the reputation of Hope.
Isaac Kisemei
Hope Beyond Foundation has a rescue center where most of the children have been through horrifying ordeals. Therefore the need for healing and psycho- social support is immense.
Isaac comes in with a vast experience in counselling. He is responsible for the overall planning and providing of psychosocial support for Hope which includes individual or group psychological support such as counselling and support groups. Providing capacity building for the team on identification and handling of different behaviors during implementation of project activities is also one of his strongholds.
Damaris Naisiae
With the reality of cases of FGM and Child Marriage in our community, Damaris works closely with the director and the counsellor in responding to such cases and others of child abuse; removing children from home settings that are dangerous.
Following legal frameworks, she works with children and their families on a reunification plan once the homes are not dangerous for the kids. She spends her days engaging the children at the center in different activities for a wholesome growth.
Michael Mutisya
Safe water, effective sanitation, and hygiene are critical to the health of every child and every community. We should therefore not take for granted daily basic human rights to have clean water and proper sanitation.
Hope has partnered with Just One Africa in providing access to clean water in the community through water filters. Michael is the head of this project performing duties of filter distribution with water ambassadors and thereafter conducting follow up to ensure that the filters positively impact the community.
Edward Ndombi
A manager’s position is very crucial at the center. He is responsible for planning and coordinating all activities at the center. Staff at the center too need a proper leadership and sense of direction that is provided by the manager.
Hope has several ongoing sustainability projects. For proper returns from these projects, there needs to be proper management to ensure success. Mr. Edward is responsible for proper planning and regulation of activities at the center ensuring success of all projects at the center.
The heart of Just One Africa is to empower, equip and encourage passionate and dedicated local leaders, like the Parits, to carry out the vision they have in their hearts to see the communities they work in become self-sustaining, healthy, and set on a track for a hope-filled future!
The long-term strategic goal of J1A is to empower high capacity local leaders who are already caring for vulnerable children within their community with sustainable solutions. These solutions provide long-term access to clean and safe water, quality education, life skills training, adequate safe housing, and more efficient agricultural methods. These continuing viable solutions will reduce the reliance on outside sources of funding and furnish them the means and ability to provide for themselves as well as those they care for.
J1A remains committed to the Parits and Hope Beyond Transitional Center.
Just One Africa is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) nonprofit orginazation located in Atlanta, Georgia.