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Nisria In honor of a great woman, we support and provide aid to at-risk children and vulnerable women by holding a safe space for them to heal and prosper.

08/28/2026

Education is a right every child deserves, but for many, it is not promised.📚

Our Be One of 500 campaign is a small step toward changing that,by helping children access the education they deserve, without the worry of whether their families can afford it.

Every child carries a future within them. A future leader. A teacher. A doctor. An artist. A changemaker.

By becoming one of 500, you’re not just giving a child an education. You’re giving them a chance to dream, grow, and build a better future.

Be One of 500. Help guarantee education for a future changemaker.

www.nisria.co/gift

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08/15/2026

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Nisria turns 10 this year. After all the challenges we had to face, I still can’t quite believe we made it this long.

We made a film to celebrate, and I wanted to tell you myself what this collection means to me, and to the women who built Maisha | Up-Cycled Fashion with me.

As always, every piece supports the children in our rescue program.

The full film: link in the bio.

08/09/2026

Some children don’t need a new home.
They need a way back to theirs.
A child should never have to wonder if they’ll see their family again.

🤍 At NISRIA, we believe rescue is not the end of the story.

It is the beginning of a journey back to safety, back to family, back to a place they can call home.

🏡 We Rescue. Reunite.

We find children who are vulnerable, protect them, care for them, and work towards safely reuniting them with their families.

Because behind every child we rescue is someone waiting, hoping, praying for their little one to come home.

Your support can help make that homecoming possible.

A meal. A safe night. A medical check. A journey home.

Small things to us.
A whole world to a child.

Help us bring more children home.

🤍 Rescue. Reunite. Home

For local contributions (M-Changa campaign⁠)
Paybill 891300 | Account 142361
👉 https://www.mchanga.africa/fundraiser/142361

For international contributions (Givebutter campaign⁠)
👉 https://givebutter.com/kwetu-haven

Nisria is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax deductible for US donors, and a registered NGO and CBO in Kenya.

07/17/2026

🔸To every graduate, congratulations on this incredible milestone. Your dedication, creativity, and resilience have been inspiring, and we’re excited to see the paths you’ll forge from here.

Thank you to Sanara for believing in the power of fashion to create opportunity and transform lives, and for continuing to make this journey possible.

Inspired by this journey? Applications for the next cohort of the FREE 6-month Fashion Design and Upcycling Training Program are now open. If you’re passionate about fashion and ready to learn tailoring, garment construction, upcycling, and creative design thinking, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, send a WhatsApp message to 0726 157 461 or email [email protected].

Here’s to new beginnings, meaningful work, and the next generation of changemakers.

His first word was “uko.”It means “there” in Swahili, a small word, a single syllable, pointing at something he could fi...
06/26/2026

His first word was “uko.”

It means “there” in Swahili, a small word, a single syllable, pointing at something he could finally see. Maxwell said it a few weeks into his time at Kwetu Haven, and the team heard it as the signal it was: he was arriving, slowly and on his own terms, into himself.

Maxwell was brought by the children’s office in Gilgil after the community raised the alarm. His mother had left when he was three months old. His father, a young man doing his best to survive, had nowhere to put a toddler in the shape of his days. Maxwell was left alone with food on the table and no one to help him grow into it. He arrived at Kwetu malnourished, unable to walk, not yet speaking, and pale from months without sunlight.

Maxwell needed someone to hold him, someone to put food in his hands and let him figure out how to eat, someone to take him outside and let the light land on his face. And then, one morning, he pointed at something and said “uko: there.”

Maxwell is walking now, he is talking. He was reconnected with his family, they are able to take care of him and that is where his story is right now.

This is what rescue looks like before it becomes a reunion. It looks like a child pointing at something with his whole hand because he has finally learned that the world is worth noticing. 🌱

What it costs to make that possible:
🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Kwetu Haven rent $500/month
💡 Utilities (electricity and water) $200/month

givebutter.com/kwetu-haven (link in bio)
M-Pesa: Paybill 891300 | Account 142361
M-Changa: mchanga.africa/fundraiser/142361
PayPal: paypal.com/US/fundraiser/charity/5297670

Nisria is a US 501(c)(3) | EIN: 92-2509133. All gifts are tax deductible.

Today we want to share one of our successful stories that came through our rescue home Kwetu Haven. 🤍John was introduced...
06/24/2026

Today we want to share one of our successful stories that came through our rescue home Kwetu Haven. 🤍

John was introduced to Kwetu through Gilgil’s children’s office after police found him wandering the streets. When he arrived, we noticed he had mental challenges and needed assistance and reminders to finish his meals, shower, and even shelter himself from rain or too much sun. 🌧️

One beautiful fact about John was how anytime we asked where he came from, he would share his most memorable memories with us and then say the same thing every time: that he came from “Salgaa”, a small town in Nakuru. 🌿

He also told us he had been enrolled in a special school and that he missed his friend Nyambu, who used to go there with him. Through these stories our caregivers were able to identify his background and begin the tracing process. 🔍

The leads from John’s own words pointed the team toward Salgaa. They contacted the local Chief, who connected them with John’s father, he hadn’t seen in two years. 🤲🏾

Plans were quickly made to facilitate the reunion at the Chief’s office. When John heard his father was coming, his face lit up with a beautiful smile. 😊

John’s story is a reminder of the power of compassion and perseverance. Of what becomes possible when a community shows up and refuses to leave a child behind. At Kwetu, John’s journey from the streets of Gilgil to a loving reunion with his family is exactly what we are here for. ✨

John is home now. 🏡

There are more children like John who need this program to exist. Here is what it costs to walk one child all the way home:

🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Rescue home rent $500/month
💡 Utilities $200/month

Link in bio 🔗 givebutter.com/kwetu-haven
Kenya: M-Pesa Paybill 891300 | Account 142361
M-Changa: mchanga.africa/fundraiser/142361

Asante sana 🙏🏾

Most organizations count reunification as the finish line. The child goes home, the case gets closed, the number goes up...
06/22/2026

Most organizations count reunification as the finish line. The child goes home, the case gets closed, the number goes up. Everyone moves on.

We have never been able to do that. Not because we are exceptional but because we have sat with enough families to know that the moment a child walks back through their door is not an ending. It is one of the most fragile points in the whole journey. The circumstances that made that child vulnerable in the first place do not disappear just because a reunification has been recorded.

What actually makes a placement hold is someone coming back, a visit a few weeks later, a check in two months in and someone asking the grandmother how she is really doing, not just whether the child is in school. That sustained presence is what turns a reunification into something lasting, and the honest truth is that we do not yet have the consistent funding to do it the way we know it needs to be done.

100+ children have come through Kwetu Haven. Every one of them deserved not just a safe place to land but a real chance at staying home. That is what we are working toward, together.

Here is what the work costs:
🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Rescue home rent $500/month
💡 Utilities (electricity and water) $200/month

Gift tiers for our 10 day campaign:
$300 funds 3 children and you receive an AHADI handcrafted brass jewelry piece from Kibera
$500 funds 5 children and you receive a Maisha upcycled garment from Gilgil
$1,000 is our Pamoja tier and funds 10 children with both pieces

👉 givebutter.com/kwetu-haven (link in bio)
Kenya giving via M-Pesa: Paybill 891300 | Account 142361

Some children we receive are not lost, they are left.That is a hard thing to say and it is harder to witness but it is p...
06/21/2026

Some children we receive are not lost, they are left.

That is a hard thing to say and it is harder to witness but it is part of the truth of this work.

At Kwetu Haven, we meet children whose parents did not want them. Not only because of poverty, not because of circumstance, but because of stigma. One of the most common situations we encounter is a child born HIV positive, rejected by the very parent who passed it to them. The child carries a diagnosis they did not choose. They also carry the weight of being abandoned.

When we handle a case like this, family tracing looks different. We still reach out to the parents and give them the opportunity to step forward. But when they do not, we go looking for someone else who will.

Most of the time, it is a grandmother.

Her resources are limited. She may already be caring for other grandchildren. She did not plan for this. But she opens her door anyway. That is both heroism and hardship living in the same person.

Nisria’s job at that point is to make sure she does not have to do it alone. Sometimes that means helping build or repair a home. Sometimes it means enrolling the child in school. Sometimes it means covering monthly expenses so the basics are not a crisis every thirty days. Sometimes it means all of it together.

Here is what it costs to keep a child safe at Kwetu Haven:

🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Rescue home rent $500/month
💡 Utilities $200/month

At the $300 tier you fund three children and receive a handcrafted brass piece.
At $500 you fund five children and receive a upcycled garment.
At $1,000 you fund ten children and receive both. 🤍

Any amount moves the needle.

Link in bio → givebutter.com/kwetu-haven
M-Pesa: Paybill 891300 | Account 142361

Behind every reunion, there is a person who made it possible, and that person is not a hero or a savior but someone who ...
06/20/2026

Behind every reunion, there is a person who made it possible, and that person is not a hero or a savior but someone who showed up yesterday and the day before that and will show up again tomorrow without needing to be asked.

Someone who learned how to trace a family across counties if not countries and weeks of uncertain leads.
This is the Kwetu Haven team in Gilgil, and this is what their work actually looks like.

They know its rhythm and its weight and the rare, quiet moments when a child stops bracing and begins to breathe again and moments that do not happen because of a single intervention but because someone was consistent enough, patient enough, and present enough for long enough that safety started to feel home.

Every member of the Nisria team who walks through those doors carries the same understanding: that consistency is the most powerful thing you can offer a child who has learned not to trust, and that showing up, again and again, without fanfare or announcement, is not just part of the job, it is the whole job.

We are in the middle of a 10 day campaign to raise $10,000 for Kwetu Haven’s rescue and reunification operations, and if you want to stand with the people who do this work, here is how your gift makes it possible.

🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Nisria rescue home rent $500/month
💡 Utilities (electricity and water) $200/month

At the $300 tier you fund three children and receive a handcrafted brass piece.
At $500 you fund five children and receive a upcycled garment.
At $1,000 you fund ten children and receive both. 🤍

Any amount moves the needle.

Link in bio. givebutter.com/kwetu-haven
M-Pesa: Paybill 891300 | Account 142361

Every child who comes through Kwetu Haven has already survived something. Our first job isn’t assessment, it isn’t paper...
06/19/2026

Every child who comes through Kwetu Haven has already survived something. Our first job isn’t assessment, it isn’t paperwork, it is presence.

In the days that follow, a picture starts to form and through careful conversations, through observation, through trust that builds slowly and can’t be forced. We begin to understand where this child came from, what they need, and whether there is family somewhere who has been looking for them.

Most of the time, there is.

Family tracing is quiet, deliberate work, it takes time and t takes people who know how to move through communities. It takes following threads that sometimes go cold and starting again.

And then one day, it works.

Here is what it costs to keep a child safe.

🍽️ Food $50/month
👕 Clothes, shoes and toiletries $30 on arrival
🩺 Medical assessment $30 on arrival
🔍 Family tracing and reunification $100 per case
🏡 Nisria rescue home rent $500/month
💡 Utilities (electricity and water) $200/month

At the $300 tier you fund three children and receive a handcrafted brass piece.
At $500 you fund five children and receive a upcycled garment.
At $1,000 you fund ten children and receive both. 🤍

Any amount moves the needle.

Link in bio. givebutter.com/kwetu-haven
M-Pesa: Paybill 891300 | Account 142361

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