Njeri Patricia Foundation

Like Njeri, We have a vision!

Our Story.

Her Life, is our story & This is Our story

Once upon a time......

Njeri Patricia Foundation is a non-government organization that was established in memory of Njeri Patricia, a mother, social worker and counselor to many in a small but historical village of Bulyantete in Lugazi Town Council found in Buikwe district in the Republic of Uganda.

Njeri Patricia was a Ugandan social worker and a mother to two children, the eldest being a girl and the younger being a boy.

Patricia was a Ugandan of Kenyan descent, born to a Kikuyu family and a Ugandan mother Nalumansi Joyce (R.I.P) and Kenyan Father Edward Wanyoike Thenge (R.I.P).


Patricia lived her early years like any other youth, attained school, started a family and tried to live upto her dreams on a daily. She had interests, friends, family and goals in life like any other youth and girl-child. However, there was more to patricia that part of the world misses to date after her departure. A certain part of her life was a real inspiration to many that led to the founding of this organization named after her.

Njeri Patricia was passionate about a number of things including cooking, travelling, fashion, reading, social networking, social development and empowerment. Her deepest passion was rooted in three major spheres of life – Christian Gospel, Guidance & Counselling and Women and Children empowerment and protection.


An idea is born

Her life changing journey started the day she became a single mother. Little did she know her life’s experience would be an inspiration leading to the formation of the Njeri Patricia Foundation.

Like most women out there, betrayal and gender based violence were contributing factors to her life’s journey as a single mother. When a person feels betrayed, they are left with one option, and that is; LONE SURVIVAL.

The trials leading to inspiration

Almost all her life, Njeri was a single mother that faced head-on, the worst the world could ever offer to a single mother, including;- betrayal, rejection, gender based violence, depression, anxiety, loneliness, financial setbacks, surviving to raise children, emotional & psychological breakdown and lots more.

She became a school dropout at a point in life, her own small family she was grooming to marriage was shattered, she was battered, segregated, isolated and looked down upon. At some point in life, she lost touch with her own children due to family instability and betrayal by people she  considered her own. She experienced a life she had never hoped to see, she witnessed all her dreams crumbling down from school, to having a happy family, all the way down to her goals in life (which ultimately included founding a women and orphan organization). Njeri was a woman of great faith and hope, only her children and close friends could ever know the depth of her sorrow which almost led her into making some of the worst life decisions due to loss of hope. Never the less, Njeri was able to reboot her life and decided to start her life over again as a single parent.

The sudden uplift

Njeri was greatly motivated by her experience as a single mother, to find purpose in her life and inspire others who were likely affected by the same life she once encountered.

Having given her life to Christ Jesus, Njeri found peace with her past, replaced hatred with forgiveness, replaced depression with hope, replaced loneliness with her kids and replaced loss of purpose with a vision - a vision to inspire as many women as possible in this world, and with a very big smile, spread love, hope and the gospel into each and every broken soul she met. With the help of God, friends and family, Njeri was able to turn her life round, found purpose and lived up to it.

The resilience & determination

Njeri lived her life as a counsellor to family and friends, a ray of hope to strangers and an inspiration to her children. This is the legacy she left behind to be remembered by many. Njeri joined several social organizations like YWAM, TASO among others through which she could start to fulfill her purpose of inspiring, empowering and protecting women and orphans.

Her dream was to start up an organization of her own, through which she could use any means necessary to transform as many women and orphans out there as possible, continuing to spread hope, love, knowledge, gospel and empowering them to become a better version of themselves and in turn inspire others too. She found a job with Kakira Sugar Works, hoping to raise enough funds to stay with her children close to her all the time, afford for them and also set up her dream of a women and orphan supporting organization. She rarely talked about her vision in public but always told it to her kids so that they could get an insight of what it means to have vision, however big.

The turn of events

Unfortunately, Njeri never lived much longer to see her ultimate dream come to life. Njeri succumbed to illness and breathed her last on 23rd February 2007. She was buried on 25th February 2007 in her family land in Bulyantete village.

The light is re-kindled

Njeri may not have been financially able to kick start her dream in time before her departure, but her vision was real. Having once disclosed this vision to both her children Blessing and Prosper, through the support of their father, family members and friends to Njeri, a foundation was set up in her memory to rekindle her legacy so that even in her departure, her name remains the face of a foundation that stands for the values Njeri believed in and imparted into souls she met almost on a daily.

She fought battles the world could not see, she cried in voices the world could not hear but her impact into other people’s lives was felt. And that, was and will always be, her greatest pride in life - Having been able to make the broken world look beautiful, making the big challenges look invincible and walking with the universe of many on her shoulders and making it look like a pair of wings. Her desire was to turn the world round for everyone who felt they had no purpose, and she made it her daily mission till she breathed her last. However, as a Foundation, we are continuing that mission for as long as we exist, and because of Njeri’s life, many more lives are to be transformed on a daily, for her story, is our story and her story is the reason as to why we exist and known as the Njeri Patricia Foundation.