OUR FOUNDER and HISTORY 
Eleven (11) Years ago, Evangelist Sabina Wanjiru Muchunu, decided to pursue her passion for Christ. She began by visiting needy people in hospitals in Nairobi, particularly those with spinal injuries. The majority of these are abandoned by their families due to their pitiful condition and lack of hope in recovery. As Sabina started visiting the patients once a week, she encouraged them, prayed with them and shared her faith in Jesus Christ as their own way forward, even as they lay in their hospital beds despairingly.
Two (2) years later, she decided to get more skills to enable her to reach more people with so many different needs in the Nairobi slums. She enrolled herself at Nairobi International School of Theology, studying Leadership and HIV/AIDS Awareness. As she continued to study, she also continued to reach out to people in the Slums of Nairobi by showing them both Christian and HIV/AIDS films. This was embraced in a big way by all. Through these films, many young and old people in the slums began to change their lives positively, which became a positive challenge to Sabina as well. When young men and women stopped their behaviors of gang activities they were stopping activities which previously had given them their daily bread. This was true as well for the young women who were stopping their street activities as prostitutes.
At first Sabina used her own resources to provide food to those needy families and orphans. A few others joined her in volunteering their time and resources to meet the needs of our neighbors in the Nairobi slums. Sabina soon realized that what she had at her disposal was a drop in the ocean compared with the scope of the need. As a result, she appealed to friends and well wishers to boost her team and their efforts. But not even what they raised as a team was enough. And that is why she saw the need of registering an NGO for the Nairobi Slums Project, with the aim of continuing in her slum and if possible, replicating the effort in the other slums in Nairobi, as funds will allow, to informal settlements in other parts of Kenya.
In 2015, she was requested by a ministry organization in the USA which wished her to work as a translator of its written materials to Swahili.
Sabina accepted this position by travelling to the USA and settling temporarily in Dallas, TX where she faithfully executed her duties.
She hoped in the process to gain enough income to support the ongoing ministry of volunteers in her absence.
The position and all support from this organization was eventually withdrawn.
In the early summer of 2016, she applied for and appealed for a visa as well as work permit in order to reach her goal of returning to the slums with gifts in hand from her absence.
During the process she fell in love and entered into marriage with Gene Wildes, a fellow Christian with interest in ministry to Nairobi.
She also has been invited to partner with a 501C Ministry here in the USA which has been ministering in Nairobi for many years.
Visit Not Without Hope Project to learn more.
Sabina says...
It is my great pleasure and honor to work in this organization alongside yours to keep you informed of these great needs within the slum community...
and more of my vision for aid and hope in new projects for the Nairobi Slums, as the Lord leads. Your contributions are welcome!
Not Without Hope Project will accept donations on our behalf through their website as well.
Thanks again for your consideration to be a blessing in a third world country, where there is so much suffering and where we are committed to do all that we can!
In God's Service,
Sabina Wanjiru Muchunu, Evangelist and President
Nairobi Slums Project
OUR PROJECT in FOCUS
As we got acquainted with the Nairobi Slums residents, we learned more about the OBJECTIVES AND THE NEEDS OF THE NAIROBI SLUMS RESIDENTS THEMSELVES. We understood more why their lifestyles were in that condition due to the following reasons:
- Lack of jobs had led many young men to join the city gangs, be alcoholics, dealing and doing drugs as a result that led to eventually abandon their families, their wives and children.
- Not willing to see their children starve to death, their wives and their teenage girls ignored the threat of HIV and turned to commercial sex. Over time, the slum was teeming with emaciated, directionless zombies, numerous AIDs cases and desperate children who went around begging for food which became a nightmare in the slums.
- In our country, the cost of living has been rising steadily, causing even many who hold jobs to earn the name 'working poor', seeing what they earn cannot take them from month end to month end.
- Since most of the money changes hands in towns, there has been a mass exodus to the urban areas where people go to look for jobs or do business where people have buying power. As a result, there are many people in similar circumstances to those people residing in the Nairobi Slums who also need help.
While it is very sad and difficult to not care for every citizen, we do focus on trying to help the ones without a single job:
- Widows and Orphans
- Young street teenage girls
- Aids/HIV Victims
- Alcoholics and drug addicts
REMEMBER...
- There are approximately 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in Nairobi representing 60% of the Nairobi population and occupying just 6% of the land.
- The Kibera Slum alone houses about 250,000 of these people. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and also one of the largest in the world.
- It costs to be a slum dweller! The Government owns all the land. 10% of people are shack owners and many of these people own many other shacks and let them out to tenants. The remaining 90% of residents are tenants with no rights. Trains with folk pass by every day!
- The average size of shack in this area is 12ft x 12ft built with mud walls, a corrugated tin roof with a dirt or concrete floor. The tenant cost to occupy a slum house is about KES 700 per Month (£6). These shacks often house up to 8 or more with many sleeping on the floor.
OUR PROJECT in LIFESTYLE CHANGE
As we meet with slum residents, their first question is, what can they do to replace their own unacceptable lifestyles? A lifestyle story on this... Sabina, a slum dweller herself, was already partially supporting herself by working with her own hands. She grew a vendor business by renting a small kiosk in a Nakumatt Supermarket Mall in the City of Nairobi and selling her jewelry beads! So, naturally, she shared what she had as she began to teach several young girls to learn to make and sell their own jewelry as well!
The girls were very excited and life was good until the Mall got shut down at the main entrance, due to construction which affected similar area businesses having to close down. Unfortunately, this also caused the girls to stop learning this talent which they had enjoyed tremendously. Sabina had been purchasing their beads from them and selling them in her kiosk. This had provided them their daily bread and an alternative to selling their bodies as prostitutes.
Sabina had also been meeting with different types of old and young men who were classified as the worst criminals in the country. She saw many of these men were transformed from their gangs. Even some drug and alcohol addicts became sober men. As these miracles were taking place, she realized how much more could be done to care for those orphans who lost their parents through HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her last year of living in the slums (2015), she decided to register an NGO know as Nairobi Slums Project so she could officially begin looking for funding for different programs to minister to all those above mentioned needs.
OUR PROJECT in FUTURE
This is where the future begins...