Published on 08, May 2023

MLIFE Foundation Breaks Ground on New Kenya Headquarters

San Francisco, CA - Charitable organization MLIFE has announced that, in light of its 5-year anniversary, it has just broken ground on the construction of the MLIFE Center, which will host the organization’s headquarters in Juja, Kenya. The new facility will serve the company’s mission of bringing educators to Africa to offer accelerated skill transfer to young Kenyan adults.

The center will also serve as a transitional age youth hub, and the campus will be the first of its kind in East and Central Africa. The MLIFE Center will have an open auditorium, an art and music studio, a game room, and a clubhouse/youth lounge with a Technology Academic Space. The center will also include accommodation facilities to allow MLIFE partners visiting Kenya to extend their programming.

The new MLIFE Center will amplify the foundation’s work of connecting youths in Kenya to those in San Francisco, and the leadership team believes that the future is global: the new headquarters and youth hub will expand opportunities for ethnically and economically diverse young people in San Francisco and Kenya to connect, network, and learn from one another.

The headquarters will include an integrated mental health center with a confidential counseling space, a commercial-grade kitchen, and a café with a rooftop deck. As part of the fundraising campaign for the new center, members of the MLIFE leadership team will also be conducting a goodwill tour of Africa, starting in West and East Africa (Ghana and Kenya), followed by Southern and Northern Africa (Namibia and Egypt). The purpose is to spread awareness of the organization and what it can offer to underprivileged families and students.

MLIFE Foundation began to promote a culture of reading for children experiencing educational poverty, defined by the World Bank as the inability to read and write a simple sentence by age 10. According to the World Bank, 53% of children globally experience learning poverty, with higher numbers in emerging and developing economies.

Founder and CEO of MLIFE, Moses Mukami, a humanitarian, writer, and leadership coach, states that the new headquarters will serve as a base of operations for the charity’s African outreach. In October 2022, he spoke on behalf of MLIFE on KRON 4's Live! In the Bay, sharing the story of growing up in poverty, how he founded MLIFE, and how the organization is reaching out to today’s impoverished youth. “Education can be a tool for liberation, primarily when it encompasses experience and learning over completion and performance,” said Mukami during the interview.

The media coverage has helped MLIFE in its goal of spreading awareness of global poverty and organizing educational opportunities for those in need. The new center will also help to support MLIFE’s two age-specific programs, the Learning Enrichment Acceleration Program (LEAP), which helps children and transitional-age youths to develop skills in reading, thinking, writing, and speaking; and the Leaders of Openness, Virtue, and Empathy (MLOVE), which focuses on guidance for transitional youth 18-24, who are considering college, employment, or apprenticeship.

Mukami says that the new Kenya center will also help in supporting MLIFE’s three community support programs, which offers interfaith education and dialogue, safe space for LGBTQIA+ individuals, substance abuse support and mental health support, and helping needy families with emergency funds and supplies.

“We receive 65% of our budget from our past beneficiaries, demonstrating our program's impact, efficacy, and effectiveness,” says Mukami. “For me, success is about legacy. It is more than having money and actualizing goals. It impacts future generations and creates paths from which others can flourish.”

MLIFE is a US 501(c)3 faith-based charitable organization that serves underprivileged students and their families, providing food, water, shelter, and education through its Enrichment Acceleration Program (LEAP) and the Leaders of Openness, Virtue, and Empathy (MLOVE).

Website: https://mlifefoundation.org

Contact: 650-713-3057

Contact: Moses Mukami