🇰🇪 Kenya 10th Anniversary Trip
Friday, June 13, 2025 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025
12 day / 11 night mission trip to Kenya
Estimated Land Cost: $4,500
Estimated Airfare: $2,000
Estimated Total: $6,500
The range of costs are subject to change based on airfare, number of trip participants, trip itinerary or length of trip.
Trip Code: KE25-06VIS
About this Trip
Celebrate a decade of impact! Join Orphan Outreach on a 12day/11 night mission trip to Kenya, honoring 10 years of partnership with Yatima Outreach in Kenya. This milestone journey will take you to Nairobi, Bungoma, and Narok, where you'll serve children and communities in meaningful ways with a two-night luxury safari in the Maasai Mara, one of Africa's top wildlife destinations.
The trip cost is approximately $3,000, with the safari priced at an additional $1,500.
About Kenya
There are nearly 3 million children who are orphaned in Kenya. 700 children are orphaned each day due to the impact of HIV. 18.5 million Kenyans live below the poverty line. In Nairobi alone, 70% of the population lives in slums, and 70% of the children in those slums do not attend school. 35 million Kenyans lack access to basic medical care. 26% of girls and 32% of boys experience violence as a child. Though the country has made strides to make education more affordable, indirect costs for secondary school are still ten to twenty times more than the monthly income of most rural Kenyan families, making higher education out of reach for children.
Orphan Outreach responds to the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children in Kenya in three ways. We offer tangible hope by meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of orphaned and vulnerable children. We invest in community outreach programs that strengthen and preserve families in high-risk, impoverished areas. These programs provide nutritious meals, access to Christian education, quality counseling and mentoring, and urgently needed medical care. We equip students and their families with the resources needed to continue their educational journey through junior high and high school.
Team Leader
Amy Norton – Amy is Co-Founder and Sr. Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Orphan Outreach. She has a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Tech University and while practicing law, worked as a Guardian Ad Litem for children in Dallas County. She also worked as a court appointed special advocate for abused children. She has managed and developed domestic and international orphaned and vulnerable children, adoption and ministry programs for 30 years. Amy served 13 years at Buckner International. She was Director at Buckner, leading the development of Buckner's international programs including international adoption, missions, and orphan care ministry. She and her husband were the first international adoption for Buckner, beginning their policy of special needs children adoption. She developed and managed the Shoes for Orphan Souls program for Buckner, which has grown to provide millions of children around the world with a new pair of shoes. She was a founding board member of the Christian Alliance for Orphans and has continued to be actively involved. She began the missions. program for Buckner and led the first mission team in 1996. She has lead many mission teams over the past 27 years and traveled extensively overseeing the in country staff and programs for Buckner and Orphan Outreach. She and her husband have an adopted son from Russia and two biological children.
Accommodations
The team will stay in hotels close to the ministry sites. The land cost is based on double-occupancy rooms with bathrooms. If you would like to have your own room, there will be an additional cost. Please email missions@orphanoutreach.org if you have any questions.
Trip Itinerary
This itinerary is subject to change
Friday, June 13, 2025 to Saturday, June 14, 2025 – Depart USA; Arrive Nairobi, Kenya
Sunday, June 15, 2025 – Visit local church; Outing and Orientation
Monday, June 16, 2025 to Tuesday, June 17, 2025 – Ministry at Patmos School
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 – Fly to Bungoma; Ministry at AKC Madeleine School
Thursday, June 19, 2025 – Fly to Nairobi; Ministry at Patmos School
Friday, June 20, 2025 – Celebration at Panafric Hotel
Saturday, June 21, 2025 to Monday, June 23, 2025 – Travel to safari; Ministry at Narok ; Fly back to Nairobi; Depart Narobi late evening
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 – Arrive USA
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*Orphan Outreach Mission Trip Baggage Policy
All mission trip participants are responsible for the cost of their checked baggage. For the most up to date baggage allowances and fees, please check with each airline you are traveling on.
Plan on bringing all luggage home with you even if a bag is empty. Please ask before leaving behind a bag in your country of service.
Occasionally we may ask trip participants to carry humanitarian aid and items needed for ministry in country. This would be on a volunteer basis and any cost for the bag would still be your responsibility.