International Cultural Exchange Foundation

We lost our dear friend Cindy Gardner on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.

Newly completed Gardner Granny (orphan) Home: December 2013.

Carolyne Ashiono (2012), director of ICEF projects in Kenya.

Orphans living at the Gardner Granny Home in their new Daisy Academy uniforms.

Some of the orphan girls, standing in front of their new home.

Some of the orphan boys, standing in front of their new home.

One of the orphans, standing in front of her new bed and quilt, showing us her new pajamas!

The childrens' favorite activity is soccer.

The orphan girls with Daisy Academy classrooms in the background.

Cindy buying shoes for one of the orphans.

Daisy Academy students, lined up to welcome American volunteers (May 2013).

Daisy Academy classroom building ... ready to be painted! (May 2013).

A team member working on painting the childrens’ school playground. (May 2013).

African dancers, welcoming the American team (May 2013) who arrived to paint the classroom building and conduct a medical clinic.

Daisy Academy 2013: First permanent classroom building

Cindy Gardner (2013) holding a Daisy Academy school child.

Carolyne standing with a group of students on the first day of school at Daisy Academy.

Daisy Academy children at work in their (temporary) classroom.

Daisy Academy preschool class: November 2013.

The beginning of a home cottage industry. Sewing Daisy Academy uniforms on one of the newly acquired sewing machines.

ICEF team member, Wendy Holt, painting Daisy Academy children's fingernails: November 2013.

Purpose

For children to be able to reach their highest level of potential, they must first have basic human needs met which include daily nutrition, responsive medical care, and a feeling of personal safety. Access to quality education is fundamental to improving the lives of disenfranchised children. We cannot change the world. But we can change the world of some children.

Current Projects

Beginning in 2012, ICEF assisted in developing the Daisy Academy, a school campus in the rural area of Bukura, Kenya. Carolyne Ashiono, a gifted educator and administrator, is the school director.

The Gardner Granny (orphan) Home was built and completed by ICEF in 2013. It presently houses 22 children and the house mother.

ICEF’s most current priority is to raise funds and complete a much needed security wall around the Daisy Academy campus, providing a secure environment for the school children, orphans, and women who work on the campus.

Contact Us

Headquartered in Farmington, Utah, International Cultural Exchange Foundation is a charitable organization qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

For information on donating contact Ann Dale, ICEF President
(801) 888-9335 or (801) 447-8629

We are currently working to find sponsors for the Gardner orphans educational costs and to assist in constructing a 6-classroom building on the Daisy Academy campus.