The Boma Fund (Manchester Center, Vermont) is an American charity that works to improve employment opportunities for the nomadic people of Northern Kenya by working with local community organizations. Projects are undertaken to provide self-sustaining income to the people in the Karare Mountain and surrounding lowland region of northern Kenya, which are far removed from the income of the traditional safari routes.

Projects of The Boma Fund include:

Emergency School Fees & Arrears Program - Funds distributed in November allowed  over 220 secondary students to pay school fees and return to school. Local leaders determined the neediest cases, with girls and orphans giving first priority. Additional funding is used to help students who have completed school but need to pay their arrears to officially receive their secondary school certificate.

Support for Community Organizations - helping organizations that work for change and improved circumstances, including women’s groups that pursue economic independence.

Famine Relief Beading Project - Gives small grants to women groups to purchase beads and supplies to make Christmas ornaments that are sold in the USA.

Partnership with the EARTH University in Costa Rica - Northern Kenyan students will attend a 4-year intensive program in Costa Rica committed to the education of science and engineering professionals. BOMA will have 4 students at BOMA in January, 2008 and graduates are expected to return to Kenya to become influential and ethical leaders.

Cows for Kids - Provides young, female livestock (cows, goats, camels) which can produce current income (milk, offspring) and future income (sale of full grown livestock) to pay for school fees, medical costs, and other necessities.

Donation opportunities are listed on their website.