The importance of good infrastructure in schools cannot be over-emphasized. Inadequate learning facilities and poor school infrastructure in especially public schools is a major challenge in Kenya. Good infrastructure and high-quality infrastructure facilitates better instruction, improves student outcomes, and reduces dropout rates, among other benefits. As part of our interventions in the settlement-based program, Habitat for Humanity Kenya partnered with Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve the learning environment of Mbombo Primary School in Laikipia […]

Habitat for Humanity Kenya through its Vulnerable and Orphaned Group Housing project aims to assist vulnerable families that earn less than a dollar a day, are in need of decent housing and lack access to water and proper sanitation facilities. Habitat Kenya recognizes that housing and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) services are inseparable basic human needs. In order to achieve some degree of economic empowerment in the communities where we intervene in, we do

We held hands and danced, along with everyone else, through her new home. It was powerful! Emotional! Unforgettable! It was the closing celebration of a week’s worth of hard manual, masonry construction, labor. The tribal songs filled our ears. Tears filled our eyes. We knew not their meaning other than all were joyous and celebrating. You do not need to speak the language to understand! Lucy is a member of the Masai tribe in Kenya.