With a world seemingly jumping from one crisis to another, a locally based international charity wants to show that there are still plenty of reasons to never give up hope. Life4Kids Canada hosts Feel the Love at the Midland Cultural Centre Tuesday by bringing stories, video and personal reflections to light to show how local […]

Life4Kids Canada, a Midland-based international charity, has extended heartfelt thanks to the Midland Rotary Club for its unwavering support of vulnerable children in Nairobi, Kenya. Life4Kids Canada funds 75% of the operating costs for a home that shelters homeless and abandoned boys in Nairobi, with the remaining support provided by a sister organization in Norway. […]

A Midland-area organization is quietly transforming lives half a world away — and now, it’s offering local residents more ways to help. Life4Kids Canada, a grassroots charity based in Simcoe County, is expanding its sponsorship and support options for a small home for homeless and abandoned boys just outside of Nairobi, Kenya. The charity’s home […]

FROM COMPASSION TO ACTION A Visit to “Life4Kids” in Kenya In late October 2024 a group of 11 local residents departed to travel to Nairobi Kenya. The purpose of the visit was to visit the Life4Kids Children’s Home. The vision of Life4Kids Canada is that “no child be left homeless or abandoned.” The mission of […]

This past fall, two young Midland siblings embarked on a mission to help with facility improvements for boys living at a Life4Kids establishment in Nairobi, Kenya. The experience Sydney, 13, and Kyle, 11, Wilson had along with Midland Rotary Club members gave them new perspectives and gratitude. “We were fortunate enough to be able to […]

This coming Tuesday evening, a group who travelled to Nairobi, Kenya to visit the Life4Kids Children’s Home will talk about their journey and experiences at the Midland Cultural Centre. The group of local Rotarians and friends of Life4Kids Canada travelled to Kenya in November. The trip was organized by the Rotary Club of Midland with […]

A charity with strong local roots hopes to end the year with even more help for the African boys it supports. “One of our supporters has put up $10,000 as a matching grant to encourage other supporters to donate before year end to Life4Kids,” says Fred Hacker, who serves as the organization’s chair and president. […]

Inger Bremvik is a Director Life4Kids in Kenya and a member of the Life4Kids organization in Norway. She recently visited the Life4Kids home in Kenya and sent this report: It has been a great joy to visit Life4Kids. When I was there some of the boys above 18 came to visit. I met Brian, Patrick, […]

To say the past week has been an eye-opening whirlwind for a group of locals now visiting Kenya likely isn’t an overstatement. Fred Hacker and 10 others from the Midland-Penetanguishene area, who are involved with Life4Kids Canada, have been working hard to improve the facility that’s home to underprivileged boys living in the impoverished African […]

Four hundred dollars later, Fred Hacker has had all the necessary vaccinations and is excited by what awaits. Hacker and a group of local residents will soon be heading to Kenya to check out Life4Kids Canada’s facility that helps underprivileged boys living in the impoverished African country. “We’ve got a house now that can accommodate […]

It might not be as well-known as other local charities, but Life4Kids Canada is doing big things to help underprivileged boys living in Kenya. And what’s amazing about this international charity is that its roots are firmly planted in Midland with many of the donors coming from the area. It all started with Amelie Sorensen, […]