Featuring Benjamin Oyoo Ondoro, Founder, Rafiki Children’s Home and Hope for the Nations Ministries
September 2023
Benjamin Oyoo Ondoro was born in 1985 in a small city called Oyugis Rachuonyo South in Kenya, Africa. His parents, Allan Nussa and Joyce Akinyi, were both Christians and raised him in a Christian household. But Benjamin also found his own Christian faith and was born again in 2015.
In 1992, Benjamin started primary school and continued there for 8 years, followed by high school for 4 years. He furthered his studies in college in the School of Plant operation/ civil engineering for another 3 years. But it was difficult for him to find work in that field.
In 2017, he felt a call to go a different direction than his studies. Benjamin and his Mom started the foster care of 5 children at Jambo Rafiki Children's Home. Jambo Rafiki has since grown and now supports 27 children and 30 widows.
His faith prompted Benjamin in 2019 to join the School of Theology for 2 years. Then in 2020 his family started a home fellowship together with children, widows, and the people in their community. God enabled them to reach many people in and out of their community with the gospel according to the Great Commission. Benjamin’s work and ministry followed a call from the Lord. Knowing God’s love for him, he felt called to share Christ’s love and continue to help widows, orphans, and the poorest people in and out of the community
Benjamin furthered his ministry to include Hope to the Nations - Kenya ministries in Oyugis. Hope for the Nations - Kenya is a faith best organization proposed to implement programs that provide education, spiritual formation, food security, health and sanitation, and water and environmental stewardship to communities. Through an integrated approach for the well-being of the rural poor, Hope for the Nations – Kenya brings hope to the hopeless in Kenya without discrimination.
The Bible teaches that “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This is what the work of Hope to the Nations ministry and Jambo Rafiki Children's Home is all about.
Benjamin’s ministry is now in the process of building dormitories and other facilities for the orphans in their care. They are in great need of resources to continue this work. Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/jamborafikichildrenshome for more information and to support.