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Our mission is to improve the lives of Kenyans by providing sanctuary, support, tools and resources through access to Education, Health, and Social Services

OOLO Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) non profit organization , that was founded in 2020 by the family of Francis Okomo Otado and Leonora Odinya of Suba District in Kenya. OOLO Foundation seeks to provide long-term solutions to problems of illiteracy, poverty, hunger, and ill health within the Kenyan communities in Kenya and in the United States.

At the local level, The Foundations activities will often be in support of sister organizations already working within the local communities. The Foundation will seek organizations whose mandates are aligned to our mission and whose focus areas are within respective fields of Education, Culture, Health, Rural Development, and Micro-finance.

OOLO Foundation will also seek collaboration with National and International partners in order to ensure and bring about consistent and sustainable improvements to all the programs that we embark on.

Health

The big challenge is to make healthcare not only accessible but affordable especially to those living in the rural areas. The use of technology; micro insurance model ; and proliferation of medical support services (human resources; pharmaceutical logistics) will mitigate this

Education

The school systems is underfunded. The acute poverty levels has led to disparities in education based on gender, socio-economic factors, and adequate infrastructure. A little give can have a long term multiplier effect.

Social Services

We are a clan minded, tribal minded in that we are communal in our concept of life. A person is part of a whole. The benefit to the whole supersedes the benefit to the individual. Any new social system political or otherwise has to be built to include this concept.

Issues

OOLO Foundation will focus its resources on selected issues concerning: Education: Health : Rural Development, and the strengthening of Cultural bonds. Other issues that would be of interest and are of themselves cross sectional are: Human Resource Development; Gender & Development; and African Traditional Concept of Life & Communal Responsibility.

The meaning of Africa Traditional Concept: "We are a clan minded, tribal minded, in that we are communal in our concept of life. A person is not only an individual, he is part of a systems, part of a community. The person has a responsibility to the community and in turn the community has responsibilities to him and his children. It is what once can called a Mutual Social responsibility." Tom Joseph Mboya a son of Suba.