ABOUT KLATAN
Care That Builds a Future.
Klatan Total Orphans Centre is a community-driven organization in West Pokot, Kenya, protecting vulnerable children while creating pathways to education, empowerment and self-reliance.
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EQUIP
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EMPOWER
WHO WE ARE
Every Child Deserves More Than Survival.
Klatan Total Orphans Centre works to protect, educate and equip orphaned and vulnerable children while strengthening the caregivers and communities around them.
Our approach connects immediate care with education, mentorship, practical skills and opportunities that can help children move toward confident, self-reliant adulthood.
The goal is not simply to respond to vulnerability today, but to help create stronger pathways for tomorrow.
Jacob Lolem
Founder & Child-Care Advocate
“I met children collecting HIV medication for parents who were dying. When those parents passed on, the children had no one. I could not walk away.”
MEET OUR FOUNDER
One Encounter Became a Lifelong Mission.
Jacob Lolem’s journey began in 2011–2012 while volunteering at Kacheliba Sub-County Hospital.
During this period, he witnessed children collecting HIV medication for seriously ill parents. After some of the patients passed away, many children were left vulnerable, neglected, abused or without adequate care.
Moved to act, Jacob personally became a caregiver to seven orphaned children. In 2014, he formalized his commitment by registering a Community Based Organization.
In 2016, he encountered 55 street-connected children living in shacks without adequate food or shelter. With support from well-wishers, he responded by providing rehabilitation, shelter and pathways to education. Approximately 200 orphaned and vulnerable children have been supported to date.
From Compassion to a Growing Mission.
2011–12
The Journey Begins
Jacob volunteers at Kacheliba Sub-County Hospital and witnesses the vulnerability facing children whose parents were seriously ill.
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Care Becomes Personal
Jacob personally becomes caregiver to seven orphaned children.
2014
Formalizing the Mission
The work is registered as a Community Based Organization.
2016
Responding to a Greater Need
Jacob encounters 55 street-connected children living without adequate food or shelter, expanding the mission’s response.
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Children Supported Today
Approximately 200 orphaned and vulnerable children have been supported to date.
OUR JOURNEY
From Seven Children to a Growing Community of Hope.
What began as one person’s response to children in need has grown into a broader commitment to protection, education, empowerment and community resilience.
OUR MISSION
Protect Today. Build Opportunity for Tomorrow.
To provide care, protection, education, mentorship and pathways to opportunity for orphaned and vulnerable children while strengthening the caregivers and communities around them.
OUR VISION
A Future Where Vulnerable Children Can Thrive.
To see orphaned and vulnerable children in Chepareria grow into healthy, educated, confident, and self-reliant adults who can contribute positively to their community.
WHAT GUIDES US
Our Values
Dignity for Every Child
Every child deserves to be treated with dignity, respect and care.
Community Ownership
Lasting solutions are built with communities, not simply delivered to them.
Practical Compassion
Care should respond to immediate needs while helping create pathways forward.
Sustainability
Support should strengthen long-term independence and opportunity.
Accountability
Klatan is committed to responsible, transparent and ethical action.
OUR APPROACH
Care Is the Beginning, Not the End.
Klatan’s approach connects immediate child protection with longer-term pathways to education, skills, opportunity and stronger communities.
Protection
Education
Mentorship & Skills
Opportunity
Stronger Communities
BEYOND THE CHILD
Strong Children Need Strong Communities.
Supporting a child also means strengthening the environment around them. Klatan works toward a model in which caregivers, families and communities have greater capacity to provide stability, opportunity and long-term support.
LIFE AT KLATAN
The People Behind the Mission.
Every photograph represents a moment of care, learning, connection or community.
OUR COMMITMENT
Building Trust Through the Way We Work.
Child Protection
Every child’s safety and dignity come first.
Dignity
Every child and family is treated with respect.
Community Participation
Programs are shaped with the communities we serve.
Transparency
Clear, honest stewardship of every resource.
Sustainable Impact
Building lasting pathways, not one-time aid.