Peter's Hope

Educating Children – Empowering Women

Give to the Max 2025: Growing Hope in Bamburi, Kenya

In Bamburi, Kenya, access to education and opportunity remains out of reach for many families. Through Peter’s Hope, a Minnesota-based partnership with St. Peter’s Mountain Children’s Center and the Bamburi Women’s Empowerment Center, we are breaking that cycle, one child and one woman at a time. Your Give to the Max gift helps children and families in Bamburi Kenya access education, nutrition, and opportunity through Peter's Hope.

This year, our goal is to raise $16,000 to support vital improvements in both programs. Thanks to generous donors from our board, all gifts made between November 1 and November 21 will be matched up to $8,000!

Together, we are planting seeds of lasting change!

Chris, our board treasurer/secretary with the kids in August 2025

 

Educating Children

Currently, our focus at Peter's Hope is equipping students with textbooks following an update in the Kenyan school curriculum. This major but essential investment ensures a quality education for all students, from Preprimary 1 through Grade 6.

Your support also helps maintain a safe and welcoming environment for learning, covering classroom supplies, playground equipment, teacher salaries, and the school’s monthly rent.

Empowering Women

At the Bamburi Women’s Empowerment Center, learning practical skills allows the more than 40 women to earn an income they can rely on to support themselves and their families. To facilitate this, the Center urgently needs supplies including rotary cutters and blades, cutting mats, embroidery tools and instruction support to keep pace with demand. 

Your support also helps maintain a safe and welcoming environment for learning.

Women's Center Students

         

 Your Gift of $100 will support our programs by:

• Feeding 4 children for one month
• Providing school supplies for two classrooms.
• Covers one month of rent at the Women's Center

Your more generous options to support our programs include:

• $150 provides fabric and rotary cutters for 4 adult learners
• $400 keeps the school's doors open for one month
• $600 Supplies 1 classroom with updated textbooks

Peter's Message to You!

"To our wonderful donors, thank you for your continued support. Because of you we have achieved more than I ever imagined for the women and children in our community. This year, the Kenyan government  has introduced a new curriculum requiring updated textbooks across all grades. We ask for your help to provide these books so our students can continue receiving a quality education. Thank you for standing with us!"

Honoring Carolyn and Jim Tonneson

This year, Carolyn & Jim Tonnesonwe dedicate our Give to the Max campaign to the memory of Jim Tonneson, the beloved husband of our founder Carolyn Tonneson of Peter’s Hope.  Jim's ongoing support, helped us move our mission and vision forward. Together, their shared vision continues to guide our mission that education and opportunity transforms lives.

Each gift given in their honor this year carries forward the legacy of love, partnership, and lasting hope. Our Peter’s Hope community joins Peter Ochieng in remembering Jim Tonneson as a kind and humble man of God, whose quiet strength and generous spirit touched so many lives.

As Peter shared from Bamburi:

“I remember Jim Tonneson as a true servant of God, who touched the lives of others with few words, but full of action. Rest well, and keep dancing with the angels — you will always live in our hearts.”

Visit our website petershope.org for more updates!

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