OUR PROGRAMS
Go to Scholarship
Scholarship
ROCK provides scholarships to secondary school students in Kibera based on their family history, academic performance, and financial need.
Go to Mentorship
Mentorship
We facilitate mentorship talks, leadership trainings, and reproductive and mental health workshops with ROCK students and boys and girls from our partners schools in Kibera.
Go to Fun and camps
Fun and camps
We hold fun day activities at the end of the first two terms to enable the new students to meet the rest of the family. After the third term, we take the students on a week long camp out of town to celebrate and reward them.
Go to Feeding program
Feeding program
We incorporate feeding into our schedule on Saturdays and some school holidays to ensure that the students are not going hungry. In the near future we’ll introduce a monthly food basket.
Our Team
The dedicated team members consist of:-
Dan Oduor
Founder and Director
Dan is a resident of Kibera and the Founder of ROCK. Dan started ROCK in 2003 with the intention to support youth in his community by providing mentorship, guidance, and peer support.
Jason Lee
Executive Officer
Jason initially met Dan in 2005 through the local NGO network while spending a summer teaching in a Kibera school. They forged a friendship grounded in their common passion for the youth of Kibera and kept in touch when Jason returned to the USA to pursue further studies.
Ghoncheh Lee
Executive Officer
Ghoncheh was introduced to ROCK through Jason in early 2012 and immediately became an indispensable part of the ROCK family as co-lead to the Scholarship and Tutoring Program. Ghoncheh also is part of the Executive Team and leads ROCK’s fundraising efforts.
Heinrich Katz
Head of ROCK in Germany
Heinrich is a German citizen who got interested in what ROCK does through one of our volunteers. He is now in charge of ROCK in Germany helping create awareness about what ROCK does and help secure funds and supporters.
