Families Supporting Families
Empowering strong families to transform community health
FAMILIES SUPPORTING FAMILIES
We believe in the power of strong families to transform community health. Children who grow up in an intact, loving family experience higher levels of physical, mental and emotional well-being that they carry to their own families. Spouses who work cooperatively demonstrate higher economic prosperity, lower rates of depression, domestic violence, alcoholism and infidelity.
Countless couples have experienced the power of our programs to improve their lives. Many families with modest backgrounds volunteer to pass the message on by leading free workshops in their communities. We are offering you an opportunity to sponsor one of these needy families with a monthly stipend to ease their burdens. We thank your family for considering supporting another family across the world who is struggling to survive, but committed to facing their challenges together. We will periodically update you on your family’s progress.
For $100 a month, your family can help a struggling family with:
Acquiring Livestock
Adding livestock provides a sustainable source of nutrition for a poor family, and gives them the ability to participate in the marketplace.
Home upgrades
Many families’ homes are dilapidated structures with leaky roofs and crumbling walls, making life difficult during the rainy seasons. With a small investment, families are able to improve their living conditions in incremental steps.
Education Fees
Although school is technically free in most places, many parents cannot afford to purchase school supplies and uniforms. Children’s labor is often needed at home. You can help alleviate that burden, allowing parents to invest in their children’s education.
Meet Faith and Raphael
Raphael, 44 years old, and Faith, 33, have been married for 9 years and are blessed with two boys aged 7 and 3. The boys are in Grade 1 and kindergarten. They live in a 2 room apartment in Kiambu County, Kenya along a busy highway, about 40 km east of Nairobi.
They say, “it will be great to receive some support to our family expenses that include rent, school fees, clothes and food. With this kind of support, economic pressure will be reduced, especially this time in our country where we are experiencing an economic depression. This will help us to be able to focus on our family, as we also try to improve our standard of living.
We take this opportunity, as a family, to thank you for this consideration as we pray for the success of The Faithful House program in our parish and in different parts of our country.”
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Mischeck and Elizabeth
Misheck and Elizabeth have been married for 12 years and are blessed with one girl and one boy. This humble family lives in Thika, Kenya along the busy Thika Nairobi Superhighway.
“We will happily appreciate the supplementary income to help us to focus more on the couples empowerment program. We would use it to help pay school fees for our children, food and rent. It will improve our income and enable us to lead a better life for our family.”
Misheck is a trained secondary school teacher, but is currently unemployed. Elizabeth is employed as a shop attendant, but “the income is insufficient to meet most of our family needs.”
“We are members of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Patrick's Catholic Parish in Thika, Nairobi Archdiocese.”
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Raphael and Faith
Raphael age 34 and Faith age 36. “We have been married for 2 years and are expecting our first child. We live in Meru county, Kenya. Any supplemental income will greatly help us to buy food and prepare for our coming child. Thank you for considering us for this worthwhile cause. ”
They are active Faithful House volunteer facilitators at their local parish, helping their priest with marriage formation.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Zacheus and Purity
Zacheus and Purity live in Kericho, Kenya and volunteer at their parish to teach The Faithful House and NFP programs. They are blessed with three children, one in secondary school and two in lower primary school. Zacheus is a designer and Purity a housewife.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet George and Elishipa
George and Elishiba are trained Faithful House facilitators. They are blessed with two children, one in high school and another in upper primary school. They are both small scale famers and they volunteer to train our programs in their parish in Kericho, Kenya. This couple has resolved to renew their marriage vows in church this coming December.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Anastasia and George
George and Anastasia are family life volunteers in Ngong diocese of Kenya. Since 2020 they have been unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Anastasia is a trained primary school teacher and has been volunteering in a private school, earning less than dollar per day.
“In case of any assistance it will help us to pay school fees for our two boys who are in secondary school. We will also use it as transport to go to various local churches in our parish and nearby parishes to train more families in The Faithful House.”
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Revocatus and Esther
Revocatus and and Esther live in Zanzibar, Tanzania. They both volunteer their time to help other couples to repair damaged marriages. Revocatus works part time as a security guard, and Esther sells used clothes at the local market. Any additional income they will invest in Esther’s small business in order to increase their income.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Gabriel and Rosta
Gabriel and Rosta are from the Mbeya region of Tanzania. They volunteer to work with our Tanzanian staff to host a weekly radio program on Ave Maria Radio. They love The Faithful House, as it gave them a renewed sense of hope in their family. Gabriel has a small kiosk in his village where he sells soft drinks and bottled water, and Rosta is a trained tailor, trying to get her business up and running. Any additional income will be invested in fabrics and materials for Rosta’s tailoring business.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.
Meet Patrick and Bertha
Patrick and Bertha are from the Singida region of Tanzania. They have one child and are expecting their second child in November. Bertha has a small tailoring business making school uniforms for local students. Patrick works laboring jobs when he can find them and then invests his income in buying chickens from the villages, processing them, and then selling the meat on market days. Their collective income is meager, and they struggle to make ends meet. They would appreciate any extra support, as their first born is near school age, and they will have the added burden of school fees, supplies, and required uniforms.
In order for this to be sustainable, we encourage you to select the $100 monthly option.