After nine children from Maisha and 11 mothers and daughters from Oklahoma ran the Rift Valley Marathon in Eldoret, Kenya, in 2011, they were inspired to create a race of their own. The Run for Life Marathon began in 2014 and has become a yearly event for The Maisha Project.   At 7:30 a.m. on […]Read more

During a visit to the Nyalenda slums, one of the Bridgeway Spring Break 2016 team members received a text. The message from her brother-in-law, who was in the United States, said he knew they were going to encounter a person with vision problems. Another member of the team said they knew they were going to […]Read more

HIV/AIDS Living Positive is a department within our Health Project. It specifically addresses the crisis of HIV/AIDS, which has left over 1.2 million children orphaned. According to UNAIDS, as of December 2011, 1.6 million people in Kenya were living with HIV and had already claimed the lives of 1.7 million more. In our rural region […]Read more

Missions Economic Empowerment Health Water & Sanitation HIV/AIDS FEEDING PROJECT Maisha’s Feeding project started in 2006 by Beatrice’s mother, Grace Ochieng or “Mama Grace,” a former schoolteacher. Seeing children falling asleep in class due to lack of food, she brought them home for lunch. As word spread, more starving children appeared on her doorstep each […]Read more

Over 1.5 million people travel during spring break. While most spring break travelers venture to tropical places with sand and beaches, a group of 10 Oklahomans will travel to a place with red dirt, tin shacks and hundreds of lovable children. A team from Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Okla. will be traveling and spending […]Read more

The Maisha Project has a total of five interns for the Spring 2016 semester. We are excited for you to meet some of the people who help us out each week!   Name: Ashley Sargent Intern title: Legacy of Hope Photography Intern School: Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City Hometown: Moore, OK 1.       How did you get involved with […]Read more

A new playground equipped with a bright yellow slide, swings, climbing gym, basketball goal and teeter totter now sits behind the Maisha Academy. As soon as the recess bell rings, the Maisha Academy students run towards the playground with excitement, ready to jump and climb on Bella’s Playground.   In May 2015, Bella Marco, a […]Read more

The Maisha Project strives to give people the power to change their communities. Sometimes, this is done by simply providing a hot meal or giving a child new shoes. Other times, lives are changed by giving a child the opportunity to grow up in a new environment, which is exactly what Maisha has done for […]Read more

When Maisha first began operating in the village, most children could not speak English. This was a problem, because Kenyan standardized tests are only offered in English. As a result, the few who were privileged to be in school rarely passed high school entrance exams. The Legacy of Hope Project started with only a few […]Read more

On Monday, January 11, 2016, over 300 children wearing burgundy uniforms stood outside the new Maisha Academy building. After a month-long break from school, the kids were anxious to get back into their regular routine. In the United States, the school year begins in August, but in Kenya, the school year begins in January. The […]Read more