Kianda Foundation

25/08/2026

Every child deserves the chance to learn, grow and thrive.

Through our Children’s Health Programme (CHEP), we bring essential healthcare, nutrition and health education to children in primary schools in Limuru, helping remove barriers to learning and wellbeing.

Healthy children. Stronger futures.

19/08/2026

12/08/2026

Young girls are not just the leaders of tomorrow. They are the changemakers of today.

On this International Youth Day, we celebrate the potential, dreams and voices of young people and reaffirm why investing in girls matters.

At Kianda Foundation, we believe every girl deserves the opportunity to learn, grow and build a future with dignity. When girls have access to quality education, safe and supportive facilities, opportunities to develop their talents, and equal pathways to decent livelihoods, they are better equipped to shape their own lives and contribute meaningfully to their communities.

Our dream is simple: '' A future where every girl can access quality education and the facilities she needs to thrive; where she has equal opportunities, a dignified source of livelihood, and the chance to live a happy, healthy and fulfilling life.''

Because when we invest in girls, we are investing in families, communities and a stronger future for everyone.

Happy International Youth Day! 🌍✨

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10/08/2026

She starts with one sewing machine. A kiosk on a dusty road. A phone line and a dream.

By evening, she has fed her children, paid a school fee, restocked her shelves.

This is the quiet engine of Kenya's economy. Women-owned small businesses ,over 1.5 million of them, carry more than profit. They carry families. Communities. Futures.

They are the market women of Gikomba. The tailors of Kariokor. The farmers of Limuru, hands stained green from tea leaves, building something that outlasts the season.

Kenya's SMEs contribute nearly a third of the country's GDP. Women run a growing share of them, often without capital, without collateral, without a safety net. Still, they rise.

Every shilling earned moves through a household. Through a school fee. Through a girl who gets to stay in class instead of dropping out.

This is not a statistic. This is the shape of an economy, stitched together by women who refused to wait for permission.

24/07/2026

Anne had a business before Fanikisha.

She was already selling sugarcane juice, tea, and chapatis. Already showing up every day. Already working as hard as she could.

During COVID, it still was not enough. She could not feed her family of nine.

She joined Fanikisha: Kianda Foundation's women's economic empowerment program. She learned to manage her profits. She stopped selling on credit. She separated what the business earned from what the family spent.

Today Anne makes KSh 12,000 a day.

She says her husband is her team. She says by the time you are married and have seven children with someone, you have to have chosen them. Together they have rebuilt something that COVID tried to take from them.

Watch her tell her story in her own words on our Youtube channel: link in bio.

And if you know a woman running a small business who needs to hear this; share it with her.
Anne's story is for her too. 🌱

22/07/2026

Amina runs a small restaurant in Kilifi. Her customers are quarry workers. She has fed this community for years.

A year ago, she had a small kitchen. Today she has expanded it into a proper mud structure with a sitting space for her clients. She built it herself. Not from a grant. Not from a donation.

From what she learned in Fanikisha.

Down the road, her daughter Mwanaisha is at Shariani Primary School. This year she went through Smartika Mimi: Kianda Foundation's hygiene and nutrition program. She learned to keep herself, her school, and her home clean. She came home and changed things there too.

Two different programs. One family. One ripple that did not stop.

This is why women's economic empowerment cannot be measured in a single column.

Read the full story here: link in comments.

Names have been changed to protect privacy. The details are real.

20/07/2026

At the end of every Fanikisha cohort, we ask one question.

What has this program meant for you?

One woman from our Karanjee cohort wrote: "I now pay myself a salary"

She came to a business women support program. She left changed ; not because Fanikisha fixed something broken in her. But because for the first time, someone asked how she was and waited for the real answer.

We wrote about what really happens inside a Fanikisha session, in the women's own words. Business skills, cookery and counselling. Three modules. One transformation.

Read the full story here: https://www.kiandafoundation.org/post/she-came-to-learn-about-business-here-is-what-she-actually-learned

15/07/2026

A skill is the shortest distance between a woman and her own income.

That has been our work for 65 years. Through Fanikisha, we train women in business, management, and food enterprise, giving them the tools to start something of their own. Through Kibondeni College, we train the hospitality leaders of tomorrow. Through Kimlea Technical Training College, we train hands for trades that build homes and futures. Through Tewa Training Centre, we bring that same promise to the coast.

Different classrooms. Different crafts. One goal , a woman who can stand on her own two feet, economically and otherwise.

This World Youth Skills Day, we're proud of every graduate who has taken a skill and turned it into a livelihood. That's what a shared future looks like to us.

16/06/2026

The African child grows.

She grows in the kitchen learning to hold a knife before she learns to hold a pen. She grows in a market stall, counting coins by lamplight. She grows in a classroom where the windows don't always have glass, but the hunger to learn fills every corner.

And then she becomes.
The chef who turns memory into meals. The businesswoman who turns a single idea into a livelihood. The engineer. The farmer. The teacher who goes back to the village she came from. The mother who refuses to let her daughter's story be smaller than her own.

Today — International Day of the African Child — we celebrate not just who she is, but everything she is still becoming.

At Kianda Foundation, we walk alongside her.

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10/05/2026

To every mother who mothers and still fights to become the best versions of themselves, we see you and we celebrate you. Happy mother's Day !🥳🥳