Who Are We?


Grassroots and volunteer-powered, OFDC invests in people. All focus areas are village collaborative and culturally sensitive; meaning we listen to the local communities to learn what they need and have them share in the project's costs. Our dedicated, skilled, and heart-felt volunteers from both sides of the ocean learn from each other and work hard to have the largest impact possible.

Your donation to OFDC empowers women through training and informative lessons. Your donation educates children through school sponsorship, the giving of school uniforms, and the construction of school desks. Your donation enhances health for all with disease prevention information sessions and the building of water wells, rainwater catchments, and latrines.

Efficient and diligent stewards of your donated dollars, OFDC concentrates on what really matters: long term solutions to locally identified problems. Past country projects include Bolivia, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal. Now focusing on remote areas of Kenya, your donation continues to actuate sustainability, self-reliance, and human achievement.

Our community involved solutions to end poverty are funded through donations from big-hearted people like you and grants from various foundations. All projects require that the local community provide 20% of the project's cost. This gives the community a sense of self-reliance and ownership for each project completed.

We strive to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to better their lives. Opportunity is everything in this world.


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Our Mission

Empower Women

We believe every woman deserves the right for her voice to be heard. Women in developing countries traditionally own no property, have not had the opportunity to go to school, lack basic health knowledge, and are often forced into child marriages. When women are given a voice, through knowledge gained from training and with peer support, things change. Your donation to fund women’s training in basic health and HIV/AIDS awareness, simple business skills, and women’s rights according to Kenyan law advances the status of women in many way: they join in community decision making, their families’ diet and health improves, they have fewer births, and they send their children to school in greater numbers.

Educate Children

We work with schools in rural Kenya that have no access to electricity or running water, and lack basics such as school desks. Children are required to purchase school uniforms and school supplies. These costs inhibit subsistence families from sending their young ones to school. Your OFDC donation purchases school uniforms for children, especially girls and AIDS orphans. Your donation also funds the construction of desks and improvements at rural schools.

Enhance Health for All

We believe every human deserves access to basic health needs such as clean water and sanitation. We work in rural areas where these are virtually non existent. Nearly half the world’s child deaths occur in Africa due to malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diarrheal diseases. Your donation funds the dissemination of basic health and HIV/AIDS information to mothers living in rural areas and the building of rainwater catchments, water wells, and latrines at rural schools.

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Our Work

2020 Project Inspection Trip

We started 2020 off with OFDC’s executive director, Dalton Wilson, visiting Kenya to inspect all the most recent completed projects. The first project that was visited was the 80 newly completed desks at Kamathatha Primary School. This school requested this because prior, they did not have enough desks for their students and were having to […]

Sanitary Pad Distribution and Health Training at Olpusimoru Primary

During our recent training seminar at Olpusimoru Primary, OFDC received a request to include the young girls in the school during the women’s health portion of the training. Passing along this knowledge to the younger generation is essential to ensure the topics discussed can be retained and practiced at a young age. In total, 304 […]

Olpusimoru Table Banking Training Seminar

Project Status: Complete Funds Provided by OFDC: $1,696.66 Funds Provided by Local Community: $453 Total Attendance:  179 women In the town of Olpusimoru, OFDC recently held a women’s empowerment training seminar on the topics of: Resource Mobilization Marketing Local Products Management of Resources Domestic Resources and Economic Impact Appropriate Markets Women as Economic Pillars in […]

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Our team

Nia Sherar
Founder/Chair
Nia Sherar
Founder/Chair
Simon Nikoitoi
Kenya Senior Advisor
Simon Nikoitoi
Kenya Senior Advisor
Dalton Wilson
Executive Director
Dalton Wilson
Executive Director
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2020 Project Inspection Trip

We started 2020 off with OFDC’s executive director, Dalton Wilson, visiting Kenya to inspect all the most recent completed projects. The first project that was visited was the 80 newly completed desks at Kamathatha Primary School. This school requested this because prior, they did not have enough desks for their students and were having to […]

Sanitary Pad Distribution and Health Training at Olpusimoru Primary

During our recent training seminar at Olpusimoru Primary, OFDC received a request to include the young girls in the school during the women’s health portion of the training. Passing along this knowledge to the younger generation is essential to ensure the topics discussed can be retained and practiced at a young age. In total, 304 […]

Olpusimoru Table Banking Training Seminar

Project Status: Complete Funds Provided by OFDC: $1,696.66 Funds Provided by Local Community: $453 Total Attendance:  179 women In the town of Olpusimoru, OFDC recently held a women’s empowerment training seminar on the topics of: Resource Mobilization Marketing Local Products Management of Resources Domestic Resources and Economic Impact Appropriate Markets Women as Economic Pillars in […]

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