Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Mission: Resettle internally displaced people (IDP) from camps that formed during the post-election violence.

Who they serve: The internally displace people in Nairobi

• Place children from IDP camps into boarding schools
• Identify the most needy cases and offer counseling
• Help with rent and furnish the new homes
• Provide food until the family can get a source of income
• Help getting a job or starting/resuming a business
  

Year founded: December 2007, by the staff of Nairobi Chapel and its daughter churches

Website: (blog) www.idpresponse.wordpress.com

• Place a family into a new home: $170
• Adopt a family for six months: $300
• Place a child in a boarding school: $325
• Support an aid-worker/counselor for 6 months:
• Donations of any amount for household needs (e.g., food, clothing, bedding)

Their story: The results of the Kenyan presidential election in December, 2007 were disputed. The presidential candidates and their principal supporters were from two different ethnic groups. Historical animosity broke into violence following the election. Over 1,000 people were killed and thousands more lost their homes. In Nairobi, the displaced people formed camps in the public parks. Nairobi Chapel was situated next to one that served as home to more than 6,000 people. Church members took in families, especially mothers with young children. One church member set up a kitchen. The Nairobi Chapel and its daughter churches ran the camp single-handedly until the Red Cross and Kenya Alliance of Churches took over. The church then focused on resettling people into homes and on building peace between the rival ethnic groups.