Tana River Life

Tana River Life Foundation is a Charitable Trust set up by Gabriel Teo Kian Chong on 13th December 2005 in Mombasa, Kenya.

The main beneficiaries are members of the marginalized communities in Tana River and Lamu Districts of the Coast Province of Kenya. These include all AIDS orphans, children of subsistence farmers and nomadic pastoralists, and single parent families without any regular source of income.

Its mission is to assist the marginalized attain self reliance so that they have the freedom and ability to make meaningful choices in their lives.

The foundation's mission can be summed up by the acronym SEED:

S -- Surmount : Working with the local community to find ways to surmount obstacles impeding human development;
E -- Educate : Providing opportunities for continuous education of the marginalized individual, both formally and informally, so that he or she may realize his or her God-given potential;
E -- Empower : Through this self-actualization,