Hi! I’m Sally Nelson the director of Anza Tena Dream Center and African Children’s Outreach. I am a wife of forty-eight years, mom of four children and grandmother of eight grandchildren.
I grew up in Southern California; but always had a passion and desire to help children and young women. My burden became more focused to reach the children, teens and young women in all of Africa, but especially East Africa.
I have had the opportunity to live in a number of African nations and while living there, my vision of over twenty years was close to becoming to a reality – “to have a primary school, vocational training center and girls home for the poor, orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children, teens and women in Africa”.
My dream did become a reality nineteen years ago in 2006. We began in 2006 with two girls at the “House of Hope” and twenty children at the “Rainbow School.” As of this year, all seven of our girls are out of the House of Hope and are making their way as young adults; we have 210 students at the Rainbow School; Eight years ago, we were able to establish the “Inspire Vocational Training Center” for young ladies and women, in which we are currently training 35 students.
Our true vision and mission…. is to assist African children, youth and families; those who are poor, abandoned, orphaned and reside in Nairobi, Kenya region. We fulfill our mission through two programs::
Our Primary School: “The Rainbow School”, which is for boys and girls living in Kibera slums. The majority of these students come from single parent homes (where the mothers have very little or no education) are often without family support.
Our Vocational Center: “Inspire Vocational Training Center” has students with have had either little education or none at all. They have no means to be self-sustaining or the life skills to gain employment and care for their families. Our hope is to assist them with the needed abilities to be able to gain employment or begin their own business when they finish our one-year practical program.
