Raising Empowered Girls
and Bettering Africa.
We believe that every girl deserves an equal opportunity to grow and thrive.
60% of 15-17 year old African girls are out of school.
The gender gap in Africa is alarming and it won’t improve without significant resources and strategic solutions.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide underprivileged girls in Africa, equal opportunities to grow and thrive through education, athletics, extracurricular activities, and access to comprehensive healthcare services, including treatment for HIV and AIDS.
The Divine Amani Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to providing world-class education and medical resources for underprivileged girls within our hub in Kenya as well as other neighboring countries in the future.
Our boarding school will offer a safe and supportive environment where teenage girls can develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to succeed.
Through our work, we aim to empower individuals and families, thereby creating a brighter future for all.
Let’s Do This.
Help Us Reach Our First Milestone Together.
Our Founders
The Divine Amani Foundation was founded by three Minnesota-based entrepreneurs: Joyce Mogeni, Michael J. Hunter and Dorothy McKaney-Scott. They are healthcare enthusiasts and philanthropists who recognized a unique need in Africa.
After years of advancing their careers in the U.S. healthcare industry, they connected over one shared passion: empowering teenage girls in Africa to help them overcome childhood poverty, trauma, and abuse by instilling courage, hope, and confidence.
Joyce Mogeni
Joyce Mogeni was born and raised in a small town in Kenya. Today, she’s an award-winning serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the founder of a successful healthcare and staffing agency, Divine Healing Home Care.
At 14 years old, Joyce worked in her father’s retail shop in Kenya where she learned basic entrepreneurial skills in a hands-on manner.
Later, she obtained nearly every nursing degree in the U.S. and credits her faith, work ethic, and resilience instilled during her early childhood years.
Passionate about creating change within the healthcare system, Joyce also owns several healthcare facilities in the U.S., including assisted living homes, where she currently serves as the director.
She is a member of the Community of Angels, where she provides hands-on support for their annual medical mission trip to Liberia.
Michael J. Hunter
Michael J. Hunter grew up in Liberia, West Africa, where he witnessed many challenges for women and children to access education, healthcare, and economic opportunities.
After living in the U.S. and becoming a nurse, he transitioned to senior level management positions. Eventually, he decided to build his own business and founded Guaranteed Home Health Care.
Michael is dedicated to informing, educating, and advocating for residential providers serving individuals in the mental health, disability, and elderly communities.
He has extensive experience with special needs care, disease prevention, health promotion, and education.
Dorothy Mckaney-Scott
Dorothy McKaney-Scott is an executive business leader with more than three decades of leadership and operational management experience.
She is a strategic planner for nonprofit agencies in Arizona and a humanitarian who advocates public policy reforms, economics, and empowerment for girls and women of color.
Her long career includes serving many roles, such as The Black Board of Directors (focused on recruiting people of color), Girl Scouts, Birthing Project (a high school for pregnant and parenting teens), YWCA, Soroptimist International and Triple R Foundation, which is a behavioral health care agency.
Dorothy is also extremely passionate about important issues impacting families, such as abuse, bullying, suicide, and violence.
Let’s Work Together And Transform Africa With “AMANI”
ACCESS
to education and healthcare
MAGNIFYING
confidence and opportunity
ADVANCING
knowledge and leadership skills
NURTURING
full potential
INSPIRING
a brighter future
Our Goals
Education
To provide a transformative educational experience for underprivileged girls in Africa with a focus on leadership training, skills development, and academic excellence.
Empowerment
To empower girls in Africa to overcome poverty, abuse, and trauma and to inspire hope and confidence in them.
Sustainability
To establish a sustainable boarding school model that can be replicated across Africa to address the education gap and social inequalities.
Health
To promote better health outcomes for the local community by providing medical care, including HIV/AIDS treatment, through the construction of a medical clinic.
Partnership
To develop and nurture partnerships with families, staff, and the community to share, reinforce, cultivate, and adapt to the values and traditions of the Divine Amani Foundation.
Transparency
To communicate with candor and total transparency through multiple channels to enhance confidence and credibility in the foundation.
Financial Responsibility
To maximize the return on investment for donors and the community through better engagement and effective management of resources.
