Safaricom Foundation - Nairobi, Kenya

We work to enable Kenyans access quality healthcare, education, skills and sustainable employment by providing resources, opportunity, hope and dignity to communities. Our current strategy builds on our strong history of results and partnerships and aims to contribute towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Supporting and partnering with communities has been core to Safaricom ever since inception. Even before we had resources that we have today, we made a commitment as a company to connect with the communities we wanted to serve.

Our first grants were small, but those modest amounts served the needs of those who were reaching out to us and as we connected directly with people’s needs, we lightened a lot of burdens and solved plenty of problems. This meant  

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supporting everything from the construction of chicken coops, to establishing seedling nurseries and buying cows and goats to strengthen community income.

When the Safaricom Foundation was formally instituted in 2003, it was setup to reflect our connection with Kenyan communities. Since then, the Foundation has worked closely with various partners to transform the lives of Kenyans of all walks of life in our society through funding sustainable projects that have a direct impact on the lives of our communities.