OUR PROJECTS

Our pride is to offer the best options for Girls and Women
in Kenya!

Kibondeni College

Kibondeni College of catering and hospitality was the first women hospitality college in Kenya, formally established in 1967. Young women from all over Kenya are given the opportunity receive highly subsidized quality technical and human skills training...[More]

Kianda School

Kianda Foundation started Kianda School in 1977 with only 38 students enrolled. The School has a unique approach in that staff and parents work together to bring out the best in every girl. The goal of the school is an integrated personal development of the girls intellectually, spiritually and culturally. ...[More]

Kimlea Girls Technical Training

Kimlea Girls Technical Training Centre is located in Kiambu District, between Kiambaa and Tigoni. The Centre is surrounded by tea estates with villages of tea pickers, as well as families living off small holdings at subsistence level. The tea pickers come from all over the country in search of a better life...[More]

Kimlea Clinic

Kimlea Clinic, provides medical care to the labourers in the tea plantations and environs surrounding Kimlea Technical Training Centre. It started as a medical assistance program, at a time when many serious household accidents and illnesses were being reported, and few of the people able to afford medical attention....[More]

Tigoni Study Centre

Tigoni Study Centre, offers ongoing formation facilities for people from all walks of life. Spiritual formation is the goal at the centre which offers a variety of activities that run throughout the year: retreats, courses, seminars...[More]

Tewa Vocational Training Centre

Tewa is one of the newest educational projects of Kianda Foundation officially inaugurated on 2nd February 2010. The centre is located at the Coast, in Kuruwitu, Kilifi County. The main reason of starting this project in Kilifi is because of the distinct difficulties faced by women in the area. Culturally, women in the area have no concept of commercial work...[More]

Faida Girl's Club

Faida is a youth centre established in 1977 for primary and secondary school girls. It provides facilities for study, interlaced with cultural, social and spiritual formation. Through its formation activities, Faida aims to prepare girls for the many challenges faced during their teenage and young adult years...[More]

Fanusi Study Centre

Fanusi was established in 1987 as a centre for university women and is located directly opposite the University of Nairobi Main Campus on a one-acre plot donated by the Government of Kenya. Fanusi is the Swahili name for the lantern hanging at the back of a dhow that guides ships safely to harbour...[More]

Business Women Support Program

Kianda Foundation has been running the ‘Business Women Support Program’ (BWSP) since 2003 targeting rural and peri-urban women. The aim of the project is to empower women through basic business training with the help of university students. The university students and other volunteers are trained in business and life skills to become instructors for the women economic empowerment course....[More]

Children's Health Program (CHEP)

Children’s Health Program (CHEP)

In the Tigoni area of Limuru, thousands of families live in extreme poverty. For most of these families the only work available is in the tea and coffee plantations as casual labourers. The wages received from these jobs are meagre and some workers do not even receive a daily wage. The situation is so dire that we often find a family of 8 squashed in a one-room house...[More]

Gatina and Maramba Nursery Schools

Gatina and Maramba nursery schools were established in the tea plantations in 1995. These projects were set up to cater for early child hood education of the children of the labourers in the tea and coffee plantations of Tigoni area. These schools have enabled hundreds of children to get enrolled in primary school...[More]