our projects

malaria net distribution

Our American team works with our Kenyan team in order to map the homes of the ‘at risk’ population, such as widows, orphans, elderly villagers, pregnant women and HIV positive individuals. These are individuals who are likely to die if they contract malaria. These same individuals are rarely able to afford a Mosquito net. After mapping the homes, nets are ordered and our American team, working hand in hand with our Kenyan team, will deliver nets to each home mapped. Each net is carefully hung with instruction as to its best use in order to protect lives. Net distribution offers a unique perspective inside each home visited and allows the team to get to know the beautiful people we serve and to share the gospel with them. OuR TEAM ALSO PROVIDES NETS tO ORPHANAGES, PRISONS AND OTHER FACILITIES THAT WILL BENEFIT FROM THE DISTRIBUTION OF THESE NETS.

WILL YOU PROVIDE A NET…. FOR JUST ONE?

reading glasses

We collect and distribute the impoverished with reading glasses. Using a simple reading test we do our best to fit the elderly (age 40 and up) with reading glasses that will improve their up close vision and especially their quality of life. This is just one way that we shared the love of God, through the gift of better sight. It is not unusual to find a recipient of our reading glasses running to find their bible to read it, or finding a needle to thread, after many years of not being able to do so!

WILL YOU PROVIDE SIGHT…. FOR JUST ONE?

female genital mutilation

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the practice of cutting out various parts of external genitalia from the female body. FGM is deeply rooted in tradition and culture of many countries and happens on girls under the age of 15. There are various types and methods but the end results can include bleeding to death, death by infection, difficulty in sex, difficulty or death during child birth, PTSD, sexual phobia, among many other physical and emotional complications.

While forcing a minor to undergo FGM is illegal in Kenya and many other countries already, due to the culture, the girls are taught that undergoing ‘the cut’ makes them a woman and it is their ‘rite of passage’ into womanhood. So if the little girl (between 10-12 years old) agrees to "the cut", then no law has really been broken. 

After undergoing ‘the cut’ the majority of the girls drop out of school, because after all, 'they are an adult now'. Because a girl is now ‘a woman’ and a ‘cut woman’ is more desirable for marriage the girl then marries early (even 12 or 13 years old) and begins having children.

For Just One understands that FGM causes all kinds of not only physical and emotional problems, but also social issues.  We are working to rescue individual girls from FGM, support rescue centers and also work to empower women and initiate changes in the culture.   

WILL YOU BE THE RESCUE?  FOR JUST ONE?