PROJECTS OVERVIEW: Health. Education. Empowerment, and The Children’s Health Village.
🏥 HEALTH
- East & Central Africa’s First Public Children’s Hospital (2015): We built and donated the region’s first public children’s hospital, which now treats 430+ patients daily and has saved countless lives.
- Coming Soon: sub-Saharan Africa’s First Public Children’s Cancer Hospital, the Shoe4Africa Juli Anne Perry: Under construction behind our flagship hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, this facility will provide life-saving care in a region where over 90% of children with cancer are today dying.
- Partnering with the Harry Dyer Children’s Burns Unit (2026): The first kid’s burns unit in East Africa, this 35 bed, 12 bed ICU specialized unit will be a freestanding building dedicated solely to burns pediatrics.
- New Shoe4Africa Idella Rome Consultants House to decongest overcrowding.
- Supporting Caregivers: We’re building a 150-bed Women’s Hostel, free for mothers of hospitalized children—modeled on the Ronald McDonald House concept, yet with a digital learning center on the ground floor.
- Classrooms at the hospital for long-stay patients
- Fully stocked library for lending and gifting books to patients and parents.
- Exterior Playhouse building in the hospital grounds with 14 childlife staff.
- Astroturf Soccer field for all-weather exercise
- Basketball court for ball games, Zumba classes, tricycle riding, and electric bike.
🎓 EDUCATION
- Six Public Schools Built in Rural Kenya: We’ve constructed six free-to-attend public primary schools, offering thousands of underserved children access to quality education—often for the first time.
- Classrooms and other facilities in other non-Shoe4Africa schools.
- Hospital Classrooms: We’ve equipped classrooms within the children’s hospital, ensuring long-stay patients don’t fall behind in their learning during treatment.
- Regular distribution of books and sporting gear to schools
💪 EMPOWERMENT
- Girls’ Clubs & Mentorship Programs: From sports to self-esteem, our clubs give girls tools to stay in school, resist early marriage, and dream big.
- Vocational & Digital Skills Training: We’re piloting programs to teach young women practical, income-generating skills—from crafts to coding.
- Women’s Learnign center at the Children’s Health Village
- Domestic Violence Survivors group learning agri-skills
🧩 THE CHILDREN’S HEALTH VILLAGE
Our vision is the Children’s Health Village—a one-of-a-kind campus spread over 9-acres of interconnected services for the child, mother, and community. At this ‘one stop shop for health,’ more children will be treated than at any other center on the African continent.
Why It Matters:
In this region, preventable and treatable conditions still claim children’s lives every day. Girls drop out of school before they reach puberty, kids do not go to school. Caregivers sleep on hospital floors, or cramming patients in hospital beds designed for one child. Women are thrown out of rural homes without any possessions, robbed of their children, when a second, third or fourth wife is taken in, leaving the ladies without help, shelter, or resources.
We are changing that—with real, tangible solutions, built to last.
Shoe4Africa: Donation Funded. 100% Impact Driven.
