Impact

The Mt. Elgon Housing project was a partnership between HFH Kenya and Mt. Elgon Trust, a charitable arm of Mt. Elgon Orchards. The aim of the project was to provide 120 decent and affordable housing units and develop a resident association for the farm workers. With funding from Germany DEB Bank and with land in Chepchoina village, the project has so far constructed 94 houses. Each house is 2-3 bedrooms and the target families have

In 2013, a mapping exercise by Habitat for Humanity Kenya in Laikipia County, identified Mukima village as one of the areas of possible collaboration. Mukima village has a population of about 3,000 people of which 11-12% of them are youth aged between 15-20 years old. The community lacked secondary schools with the nearest Secondary school being more than 15kms away. Students from the area were then forced to attend schools in adjacent districts. To address

The violence that erupted after the much disputed elections in 2007 displaced more than 600,000 persons in Kenya and left more than 1,300 dead. Most of these families had sought refuge in a nearby police station before being moved to the Eldoret show ground by the government where they stayed for a period of one year before being given a resettlement package of Kes.35,000 each. A group of the displaced families decided to use their