Impact and Projects
ODFL works to help install small infrastructure projects, such as water wells, irrigation systems, sanitary waste disposal systems, and similar such projects that have a low cost but a high impact on small villages.
Its maiden project was the construction of a school in Naro Moru, Kenya, which cost $9,400 to build. The schoolhouse was furnished with materials to help educate fifty children who previously learned in a barn house. Since then, the organization has sent 452 bikes to children in Kenya whose homes were located far from the local schools, as well as the donation of milk cows, the construction of two more schools in various other locations in Kenya, and an upgrade for a woman's clinic in Nairobi.
Besides Kenya, ODFL volunteers in partnership with the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation have additionally constructed schools in Nepal, and prevented young girls from being sold into sexual slavery by donating livestock to their parents instead of prostitution money. They have also aided the local Second Harvest Food Bank chapter by raising 4,000 pounds of canned food. The organization has also worked with school-based clubs at Los Altos, Mountain View, and Fremont High Schools to raise money and aide the relief efforts in China following the Sichuan earthquake. They donated $3,000 to the Red Cross.
ODFL's largest project was announced on January 2009, a plan that involves the entire population of the city of Burlingame, which includes 25,000 people. The plan to raise at least $18,000 in one month and send them to Kisimu Education Fund in order to construct two-room high school in a village where they previously built a secondary school.
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