Charity with Brad Broder, Kenya Education Fund - 022

Bradley Broder is the founder and Executive Director of the
Kenya Education Fund.


Bradley founded Kenya Education Fund as a means of supporting the
children he befriended while serving in the US Peace Corps for
two years (Kenya 1999-2001).   Bradley has over 17
years experience working with Kenya and speaks fluent
Kiswahili.  His deep, personal connection with Kenya and
knowledge of international development issues has led Bradley to
focus KEF focus on keeping Kenyans in school to develop the
country’s human capital and reduce dependency on foreign
aid.  Brad holds a BA in Spanish from SUNY Stony Brook and
an MA in Political Science from Western Washington
University.   He lives in New York City with his wife
and two sons.


The story of KEF weaves together the rich histories of three
organizations,  the Kenya Education
Fund (est. 2006), the Nomadic Kenyan
Children’s Educational Fund (NKCEF, est. 2001) and
the Children of Kibera Foundation (est.
2007).


KEF has over 20 years of collective
experience working to promote education in Kenya.


KEF was started by former Peace Corps
Volunteer, Bradley Broder and local community leader, Dominic
Muasya, to keep kids in high school when their means did not
allow. 


NKCEF was formed after a group of families
from McLean, Virginia accompanied their children’s high school
teacher, Hon. Joseph Lekuton, on a trip to his nomadic homeland
in Northern Kenya where many of the children were not in school.
NKCEF combined with KEF in 2011.


Children of Kibera Foundation was founded
by Honorable Ken Okoth (Kibra) and provided hundreds of
educational scholarships to primary, secondary and university
students from Kibera –Africa’s largest slum. CoKF decided to join
hands with KEF in 2013.


Notes from the show:


Brad founded the KEF in 2006.


The KEF gives scholarship to Kenyan high schools; you can sponsor
a child for just $750 a year.


He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Loitoktok, Kenya from
1999-2001.


He was in Namibia when the towers came down.


When he returned to Kenya 3 years later, so many people had died
from AIDS.


The KEF started with asking friends and family for money to send
one girl and then five kids to school.


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