Alumni Communities

In 2025, we reached a milestone we had been working toward for years. We said goodbye.

In 13 urban communities across Kenya and Tanzania, many of which have been home to Untold centers for nearly a decade, we graduated our final cohort of clients and officially handed the work over to the local church.

In each of these communities, we had served every man and woman who met our vulnerability criteria. Our center staff had walked alongside hundreds of clients through years of counseling, group therapy, medical care, and economic training. In the decade we have been working across these communities, Untold graduates have become mentors and business owners, and local churches have grown into communities that can carry this work forward without us, and that was always the goal.

While we are celebrating this formidable programmatic milestone, these center closures are bittersweet. Retiring center staff who have given years of their lives to this work, and stepping away from communities we have all come to love, is not simple, even when it's right. As everyone who has been around our work knows, our center staff didn't just run a program; they showed up for people in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives, and leaving that work is full of grief, even when it comes wrapped in gratitude.

But we firmly believe that healthy endings are part of faithful presence. The 9,120 graduates now living and leading in these communities are evidence that the work took root, and the local churches are not stepping into a gap so much as stepping into a legacy.

We are so proud of the staff who served in these centers, so grateful for the clients and graduates who trusted us with their stories, and so glad to have been part of what God was already doing in these communities. The work continues, and in these 13 communities, it now belongs to the people who have always been its heart.

We are more energized than ever to deploy our resources in communities where people need our intervention most, and we are so grateful to have our community of alumni, staff, and donors by our side as we look toward the next decade of work.