About Us
Welcome to Jambo Hope Center, where we are dedicated to transforming lives and empowering communities through our comprehensive programs in arts, education, counseling, healthcare, and mentorship. Our mission is to provide holistic support and opportunities that foster personal growth, social development, and well-being.
Our Objectives
- To bring out each child’s talents and skills for future employment
- To provide basic needs, shelter and meals for children on the streets and others in vulnerable situations
- Assist children in the process of healing from hurt and trauma.Teaching them tools and ways to deal with their emotions and feelings.
- Providing them the means to get a formal education
- Identifying skills and talents to place them in appropriate trade for future sustainable employment
- Promote programs and information for parents, guardians and teachers about positive community participation.
- To create future leaders by teaching communication, awareness and initiative skills to give back to their communities
- Empower the children and enhance their self-confidence through artistic and cultural training and activities
- Acrobatic training to enhance strengths, talents and paths for future.
Mission
We are committed to improving the lives of children by providing an art program that also supports education and community. Our goal is to build the Jambo Hope center, a place where children are inspired to dream and build better futures. To not just survive but a place they can be nurtured, receiving the care and resources they need to thrive.
Vision
We envision a world where every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential. By creating the Kenya Hope Center, we aim to break the cycle of poverty and provide children with the tools they need to succeed and create a brighter future.
Core Values
- Hope
- Empowerment
- Compassion
- Self-reliance
- Self-care
- Making a difference
- Community
Our Team
Michael Nduta
FOUNDER & COACH
My name is Michael I was born and raised in Keyna in Nairobi by a single parent. By the time I was 6 life became so hard, my mother got sick and she couldn’t work anymore, So I had to go to the streets to find something to eat and maybe bring her something from collecting bottles and selling them to get a meal. By about 7, I was introduced to a program that would come to the streets and would feed us a meal on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and taught us the dangers of taking drugs. That evolved into taking us to school and giving us formal education and skills for farming and how to be clean and take care of yourself. After a time the owner of the project decided to build a home for about 30 of us that we could all live in and we started to get donations and people that wanted to support the home and allow us to eat and introduced programs like acrobatics and dance to teach us skills for the future. These skills that were taught to us were so important because it built character, confidence, focus, and an interest into knowing more about it. It caused me to focus so much that I got really good in it and realized I had talent. Later after finishing school I was asked if I wanted to join a special acrobatic school. From here I was given a chance to be part of a program that let me travel all over world performing, teaching and learning from other countries. Through donations and support from key people me and my troupe were funded to travel and perform all over the world. Today I am successful as a professional performer and choreographer for several shows in China and other places in world. Today I am so happy to come full circle and give back to other children on the streets. To be able to teach other kids these skills and create a program for their future. The new Jambo Kenya Hope Center will be the way that we can continue to take children off the streets and give them skills to create a better future for them and their communities. Laura and I are happy to introduce new programs offered in this center to achieve better futures for these children, like I received.
Laura Skinner
CO-FOUNDER
Laura has 18 years of experience working with children, teens and adults. She helps people work through trauma, pain and emotional triggers to regain a sense of safety, dignity and control. She has worked with many clients with learning disabilities and emotional behaviors. She teaches them tools to overcome physical, emotional and mental obstacles and reactions that are detrimental to a balanced and positive relationship with themselves and others.
One of the ways she works with children and teens is to help them understand their emotions and to heal from their trauma and pain. She helps them learn more positive ways to deal with and overcome negative reactions and emotional triggers that stem from past trauma.
She works with the mental and emotional energies to move her clients from a survival mentality to a thriving mentality that allows clients to reach their highest potential. She helps children and teens find the words and understanding to move forward from the past and shift toward creating more positive outcomes in their lives. She loves helping clients adjust their thinking and perspective from a negative place to one that sees and understands new potentials for positive growth and living the life they want to create.