Red Rhino Outreach Project

Polly’s Kitchen

Greg Traverso — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:17:25 +0000

In 2014 Red Rhino started a school fees assistance program to help the very poorest kids in our very poor rural neighborhood make it through primary school.

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Joey Shepherd Red Rhino Resource Center

Greg Traverso — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:15:38 +0000

JSRRRC is preparing to send several students from our team, which came in 2nd out of eight schools in a local competition to an international competition in Shanghai, China.

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Update from Wilson

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:37:27 +0000

Wilson was our first employee. Prior to working for Red Rhino, Wilson was a very poor field hand working for $1 per day on a neighboring piece of property back in the early days of Red Rhino. One day after Wilson had worked for us for nearly a year David asked him this question, “Wilson, if you could live your dreams, what would you want to do in your life?” Wilson’s reply, “To become a surgeon.”

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Special Thanks

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:32:50 +0000

A Special Thank you to Shamrock Charities out of Seattle, WA who have been helping the world globally, including Red Rhino since 2006; and La Madre de los Pobres for their grant for our Community Outreach Program's feeding program and Sister Agatha's work in the prisons in Mombasa for the second year in a row.

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Sister Agatha

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:23:58 +0000

Our Dear Friend Sister Agatha cares for and ministers to women and their children in three different prisons in Mombasa, whose children are forced to grow up in the prisons alongside their mothers who are doing their jail terms.

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Kitchen Project Mulandi School

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:22:36 +0000

We are working towards the completion of the kitchen in the school’s dining/study area where over 75 of our Outreach kids attend. The kitchen will serve the 300+ children at the school with two meals per day which Red Rhino provides through our feeding program. The structure allows the children to have a place out from under the sun and to be sheltered from the rains to eat and to study.

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Outreach Program News

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:21:33 +0000

We have been working behind the scenes to quietly help families as the needs present themselves to us.

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So Long Sobobo, Welcome Voodoo

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:19:08 +0000

Last year we said farewell to our long-time guard dog, fierce protector of Red Rhino, and dear friend, Sobobo. A kind supporter of the project read our RIP Sobobo article from last year’s newsletter and reached out to us about donating a new and highly-trained guard dog to protect the Red Rhino Children’s Center. Two of our employees were sent for the required one-week paramilitary training in order for us to be able to have one of these incredible animals. It was a long week. Thankfully, at the end of it they were able to return with our new friend, Voodoo, a Dutch Shepherd and Belgian Malinois mix who was trained near Naivasha and is one of the best guard dogs imaginable. She is less than two years old and more kid-friendly than Sobobo was, yet as equally voracious if she needs to be. However, not everyone is happy, see Through the eyes of Marley below.

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Red Rhino Art

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:09:23 +0000

One day while the kids were quarantined at home, one of our older boys noticed a certain paver was in the basic shape of Africa. With help from some of the other kids and adults, he went about transforming it into a piece of art. It now hangs handsomely and for all to see as they enter Red Rhino.

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The Power of Home

Greg Traverso — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:06:44 +0000

Home is a powerful word. Ideally it is a place of warmth, of protection, of love, and of happiness. When we first started RROP back in 2005, we had the idea of a home for kids who didn’t have one. On our recent visit to the Red Rhino Children’s Home, it struck us more than ever that we were visiting the kids in their home. Not an institution. Not an orphanage. But a home. While the ‘kids’ are growing up, they are still clearly kids, but with the signs of adulthood definitely inching in. A group of the younger boys had some sticks in their hands and they were standing around a little mud puddle laughing and playing some kind of game, throwing the sticks in the mud (and at each other). Over by the chicken coop five or six of the kids were talking to each other, arms leaning on shoulders, watching the chickens and roosters, whom they know by name. The girls led the charge for all of the kids to begin practicing a dance they had been working on – a dance for us and one we weren’t supposed to see until later after dinner. Walking around the Red Rhino property we could hear laughing, kids going in different directions talking in Swahili,occasionally in English, at times a mixture of both. For the most part all teenagers. A certain kind of innocence that seems lost in our world. Then all of sudden a collective excited commotion. There was something happening at the entrance gate to the property. A visitor or visitors. Everyone converged. Hugs. Surprised laughter. It was Daniel and Jennifer who had not been “home” for quite some time. It was a great surprise. Someone asked Jennifer, “how did it happen that the two of you arrived at the same time?!” Without missing a beat, Jennifer said, “communication.” Just a short while later, Rachel appeared and the same scene was reenacted. With the sun setting across the plains and that delicious golden light permeating everything, we said grace together sitting in the common area, and enjoyed wonderful eggplant pasta. After dinner, we went around the table and everyone (including the housemothers) said what they wanted to be when we grow up. The kids’ responses were interesting and inspiring: “an engineer,” “an airline pilot,” “international relations,” “a soldier,” “a psychologist,” “a teacher” … Four of the younger boys scurried away before it was their turn. Some things just don’t change. Then a couple of the girls gave speeches and read us letters they had written in advance. They spoke for all of the kids. They asked us to thank our sponsors and all of you for what you have done for them. We ate cake and celebrated. Then the dancing started. Greg & Susan Traverso, Founders, RROP

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