Lifelong Foundation brings hope and healing to Kenya’s prisons through care, faith, and support.
The Lifelong Foundation Prison Redemption Program reaches behind Kenya’s prison walls to offer hope, healing, and transformation. With over 54,000 inmates living in overcrowded and often inhumane conditions, this initiative steps in where others don’t. Through the Chains Broken initiative, trained counselors provide spiritual guidance and Bible-based mentorship. Our Hope Parcels deliver essentials—like toiletries, sanitary towels, blankets, and Bibles—to inmates long forgotten by society. From Kamiti to Lang’ata, Naivasha to Thika, we bring dignity where despair reigns. Reaching over 3700 inmates so far, the program stands as a testimony that even behind bars, redemption is possible.
The mission of the Lifelong Foundation Prison Redemption Program is to restore dignity, inspire hope, and foster spiritual transformation among incarcerated individuals in Kenya. We are committed to reaching those forgotten by society through compassionate counseling, faith-based mentorship, and the provision of essential supplies—proclaiming that even behind bars, redemption is possible.
Challenges in Kenyan prisons are dynamic and overwhelming. Overcrowding chokes life—10 men to a cell in Eldoret, sleeping in shifts on cracked floors, while women in Thika clutch babies born behind bars, a myth—wardens outnumber counselors 50 to 1, and spiritual care is a ghost, with one chaplain for thousands if at all. Despair reigns—gangs rule in Kamiti, flaring in Mombasa, and guilt festers where hope’s been snuffed. Society has long shunned these souls, fearing taint or futility, leaving the call to the prisoner a dusty promise. In a nation quick to lock away and forget, the captive stay lost—spiritually, physically, eternally. Lifelong Foundation believes these gaps can be filled, a mission at a time.
Lifelong Foundation breaches this bleakness with determination and compassion. Through the Chains Broken initiative, we train counselors to face the mess—how to guide a murderer toward peace, how to support a thief through prayer, how to offer hope to a convicted politician—then fund their entry, navigating bribes and bureaucracy. We partner with wardens for access—handshakes open gates—while community leaders join us, offering support that echoes through cell blocks. Hope Parcels mobilize community donations—robust supplies swelled by prison staff to reach the neediest, like a lifer with no kin. We collaborate with county officials for clearance, relying on our mission’s purpose to turn barred doors into doorways of grace. It’s a program that stares down razor wire and says, “You’re not forgotten.”
Since launching the Prison Redemption Program, Lifelong Foundation has reached over 1,300 inmates across Kenya, helping them grasp redemption—a convicted felon can now confidently say, “I am not forgotten, in prison, but free.” Families hear it and rejoice—there is a spark beyond bars. In a system that buries hope, we’re unearthing it—despair softened through community support, recklessness calmed through prayer, and hopelessness redeemed through shared sermons. Lifelong Foundation proves that even the captive can rise.
Your support helps us continue our mission of bringing dignity, hope, and opportunity to communities across Kenya through our Prison Redemption program.